Picture This!
Ceramics and Pictorial Spaces
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Theory bookChapter 4
The Narrative Esthetics
2D/3DFunction/Decoration
Form/SurfaceImage/object
Ceramics is the art of timeIt is the ultimate archival art formCeramics is the art of the future
How to archive it?
The Frame
and framing devices
Altamura Painter, Fall of Troy, 465 BCE Odysseus under a ram, 475 BCE
Egyptian wall painting
Etruscan, Vulci, 650 bce Form/image articulation
Leagros group, 510 bce Niobid painter, 450 bce
Berlin painter, 490-460 BCE the form as frame
object silhouette as frame
ellipsis (missing elements)
Elision (partial representation)
Extension beyond the frame figure/ground reversal
Andokides 525 BCE
Syleus, 490 bce Getty Museumold and recent restauration
Continuous composition, Dinos 430 BCE
Circular composition , Kodros 440 BCE
Circular composition(concentration), Triptolemos 480bce
Reverse Circular (expansion), Phiale 430 bce
active framing, pressurized tension
performative framing
Painting reference?
Painting reference? Pronomos 400 bce
contestation of the narrative
Richard Milette
Ceramics and Photography
Chemical and physical processesParallax distortion of space
Negative/positive and multiplesForm of archives, of memories and of experiences
Both art of time, of fleetingness and eternity
parallax distortion of space by convex form
Minai ware, Iran, 12th C. flat perception yet deep convex space
Nazca and Moche, Peru
Cochiti PuebloDiego Romero
Cochiti PuebloVirgil Ortiz
The Seven Gods of the UnderworldMaya Aj Maxam (signed)
The occidental pictorial space
Xanto Avelli, 16th C. ItalyMaiolica painter
Multiple systems: decorative, heraldic, representational, etc.
on one object
Urbino, Italy, 16th C.
Francesco Xanto Avelli 1528 and 1537
Andrea della Robbia 1505 Buglioni 1520
Surface representation on 3D formsSculptural Ceramics
Ceramic Sculpture????
Sculptural Ceramics
Sculptural CeramicsFunctional Ceramics
Architectural Ceramics, etc…
Patti Warashina surface/form conflation
2D/3D continuityPatti Warashina 1976-77
The Blue Willow Pattern
Blue Willow, Thomas Minton, 1780 English Delftware, 1770
Olly Moss Paul Scott, “Fukushima”
Brendan Tang (destabilisation) Hugo Kaagman
Michelle Erickson
The oriental pictorial space
Void and Active Presence
Qing, China, Peaches and Bats,18th C.
Kakiemon, Japan, 17th C.
Meissen, Germany, 1740Kakiemon, Japan, 18th C
Contemporary KakiemonKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
Du Paquier Vienna, 18th CKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
Meissen, Germany, 18th CImari, Japan, 18th C
Du Paquier Vienna, 18th CKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
China, Qing Dynasty transitional framingFamille Rose,
Kenzan, Japan, exterior/interior continuity
Wayne Highby, exterior/interior continuity
Kitaoji Rosanjin, exterior/interior contradiction
destabilizingstable framing
destabilizingKurt Weiser
Contemporary Examples
Ai Wei Wei, reversal of viewpoint
Paper cut-outsBovey Lee
Meissen, Germany, 18th c.Léopold Foulem
Meissen, 1730’s (dynamic) rococo framing
The Depth-Box
Penetrating the form
Worcester, England, 1800’sCharles Meigh and Sons
Crystal Palace Vase, 1851
Rookwood pottery, 1900
Rockwood Rozenburg 1909
The Continuous, all around surface
Perceptual and psychological reversal
Rookwood Art Pottery
Frederick Hurten Rhead
The Surface as Volume
Corrida, 1950’sPablo Picasso
3 D surface (!) surface as formLéopold L. Foulem
LA landscapeKen Price, Club Atomica
Wayne HigbyPaul Mathieu, Odalisque Bowl
Anne Krauss, USA, 1990’s
Jumpin’ at the MoonlodgeMichael Frimkess, 1963
MemoriesMichael Frimkess
Ecology Krater, 1971
Michael Frimkess
Grayson Perry, Emotional Landscape
Daniel Kruger 2000Daniel Kruger 1990’s
Paul Mathieu “The Avowal of the Flesh” interactive framing
Paul Mathieu “Day” interactive framing
Paul Mathieu “Night” (other side)
Paul Mathieu, “The Arrows of Time (for S.W.H.)”, 1990
Karl Skoe Fredriksen
detailJeanie Mah
Myungjin Kim Soo-Jong Ree
Jonathan Hopp/Sarah Auslander Urban Vases 2004
Kevin SnipesBeth Lo
Viola Frey, 1977Edward Eberle, 2000
Walter Ostrom “Memories” non-directional viewpoints
Walter Ostrom Irak War plates, 2003
The Treachery of ImagesRichard Milette
Paul Scott Mad Cow Bone China Meat Carving Dishthe conflation of material, subject and function
Also, Kohler workers mural 1990’s
Ann Agee, New Jersey
Pink Set 2010Ann Agee, Gross Domestic
Product 2011
12 steps containerMatt Nolen, Credit Card jar
Handicapped TrophyGlitter and Be Gay
Vanity vanityKathy King
remedy holderKathy King
birth control pill jarCondom Holder
Hockey VaseMariko Peterson
Carnivores of Canada
Bad Art/ Bad PotteryGrayson Perry
Art/Fashion Same Thing
Boring Fashion People You are Here
Akio Takamori the surface within the form, unglazed image on glazed ground
The viewer in the reflected surface
TransferenceSex Object
Janet Deboos Pots on pots on pots
Felicity Aylieff
Philip Eglin, bucket
detailRichard Notkin
Viola Freypicture
What is important is not the story. What is important is HOW the story is told.
To do with Ceramics what can only be done with Ceramics
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