Miro Chin: The Use Of Art In Everyday Life

My role as a teacher is to create stimulating classes giving the learners the opportunity to develop and achieve skills associated with ceramics practices. I start by firstly understanding the assesment criteria set out by the AS board,

I chose to do my research on a local ceramics artist named Heather Dahl. After interviewing Heather, I have learned a lot about her past and in addition, I believe that I've learned some helpful knowledge for myself going into the future. Heather Dahl grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Yarrow when she was 14 years old. Later on in life she moved to Vancouver and now has a studio here which was funded in 2007 called dahlhaus art. Heather believes that the environment she grew up in had an impact on herself as an artist, but personal experience, aesthetic and many more aspects also play a role in her story as well. She knew that she wanted to have a career in the arts by grade 9, but in the beginning she had always thought that she would become

As many scholars argue, minjung art came to the forefront following the Kwangju massacre. Because it was such a devastating event for the “people,” crude woodblock paintings are often used to portray the graphic and horrendous events that occurred. In Tomiyama Taeko’s piece [fig. 4], there is a naked and dead woman laying on the ground, her insides being shown to the audience to demonstrate the tragic future of her child not only because it lost its mother in the massacre, but also because it would have to live in a world without democracy. At the same time, the baby appears to be outside the mother’s carcass, showing the brutality of the massacre in which people’s stomachs were torn apart, and their babies left to die in the open. The nakedness

The United States is the "land of the free, and the home of the brave" according to the song, but there is a dichotomy that exists between those who have called the United States their home for a long period of time, and those who are immigrating to the US. Asian Americans are a group that very few think of as having difficulties because the stereotype is of a group that is intelligent and is actually doing better than the average American. While this may seem to be true, better grades in a school setting does not mean that people who come from other countries are not experiencing racism (both overt and subtle), stereotyping and alienation in this country. Although there has been some difficulty, many groups are experiencing newfound hope because of the actions that they are taking. The plight, and the hope of the Asian cultures are being documented by artists of different stripes who are eager to depict what has happened to Asians as they try to build their own America, and assimilate into the one that was built before they came. In this paper, the Asian American cultures will be examined through the art that has been produced over the many years that Asian people have striven to make their way as new Americans.

Carolyn Genders is the ceramicist who uses a hand-built and a decoration to demonstrate her vision of landscape and surrounding. Her works are well-known of using vitreous slip to make a layer and a texture. She creates a work by Generating the relationship between surface, texture, and pattern to make a feeling of rhythm and movement. She combines the techniques of print, sgraffito, and especially painting to decorate a work that she call them “ Three dimensional painting in clay” (see fig.2). Moreover, she focuses on exploring nature and surrounding to create a pattern which is the understanding of what she sees and feels. In term of Genders’s work, she is the most influence artist of my own work so far. Hence, in this essay I intend to describe

Using the common, yet intimate object of the ceramic tea bowl as a stand-in for the body, traces of beautiful imperfections such as the distortion through firing, frozen moments as seen in the throwing marks, and fragmented experiences such as the cracks that have been repaired are revealed. How does displaying a large collection of tea bowls differ from using just one? Does this evoke a sense of community or the diversity of experience? The work in Potential of Imperfections by Melissa Cunningham begs to answer these questions through connections to history, present forms in the processes, and contemporary art and thought surrounding this installation as well as her body of work.

“ Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I’m Cathy Pearson. Welcome to Jardine Porcelain Manufacturer. We produce eating utensils, such as plates, bowls, cups and saucers. Now Let me tell you how porcelain is manufactured. Well, first of all, sand, soda, limestone, dolomite and feldspar are mixed in the mixer. Then they are transferred to the tank furnace. Next, the materials are heated to a temperature of about 1500 degree Celsius and when the glass is liquid, the temperature is reduced to about 900 degree Celsius and arsenic and manganese dioxide are added then. After that, the liquid is passed in the required shape, we cool it slowly. This stops it cracking. And these are the final products. Why don’t we see the real process at the factory?

It was a rainy day in LA. I have been praying to not have rain while I am in LA but unfortunately, at the point of where I almost got rid of the cold, it has rained at last. However, I had a good experience/visit along rain. Although I am a fashion student, I am interested in ceramics because I had worked and made a lot of ceramics since my cousin sister got her degree in ceramics. When I was about 6 years old that I first made my own pots. Because I love making things with clay and familiar with ceramics, Peter Shire’s art works were really interesting to me that those are unusual, unique, different from the tradition mold of the cups, kettles, etc.

Is art a form of self-expression from the artist to their audience? Self-expression is defined as, “the expression of one's feelings, thoughts, or ideas, especially in writing, art, music, or dance.” (English Oxford Dictionary). The source of inspiration for art is unknown for certain, but it is commonly believed that it comes from inside the artist, based on their life lessons and experiences. If the inspiration comes from within, then artists are expressing themselves through their art, thus art is self-expression. There are innumerous forms of art, from writing to dancing; singing to creating a drawing, public speaking and everything in-between. A person who is whistling is expressing how they are feeling through the notes that they hit. Someone who is drawing can use darker colors, such as browns and blacks to give off an eerie tone. Does that mean that all art is self-expression? No, not all art is self-expression, maybe it isn’t self-expression at all. This leads to the debate over whether art is self-expression if the inspiration comes from an outside source, rather than from within.

Considered one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of ceramics being an independent visual medium, Toshiko Takaezu “revitalized her field with abstract shapes, painterly glazes, and lyrical installations” (Ruud 20). Takaezu was a Japanese-American ceramist who took her knowledge from her schooling and a visit to Japan to create beautiful forms of art. According to William Grimes’ article “Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic Artist, Dies at 88,” Takaezu is best known for her “closed pots and torpedo-like cylinders, derived from natural forms” in which “helped to elevate ceramics from the production of functional vessels to fine art” (Grimes). Takaezu’s works of art included using techniques such as closing off the top of her vessels, allowing for her to have a clay canvas for glazing of all kinds, as well as utilizing an ancient tradition of anagame, or tunnel-kiln firing, that produced “accidents” such as ash deposits and scars from surrounding pots, and as a final point was strongly influenced by her study of Zen Buddhism and using her ceramic work as an outgrowth of nature.

The participant observation portion was conducted by enrolling in a ceramics class at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) and interacting with the pottery students and teacher. During this time, notes were kept about the way students worked together to solve problems and the general discussions and atmosphere in the studio. During the participant observation portion I also recorded my interaction and connection to the clay.

Art is a way for the Asian artist to express their feelings with the viewers. The Asian culture uses art to convey the connection between people and nature in the form of brush painting and Japanese wood block printing. For instances, the Japanese wood block printing, The Great Wave created by Hokusai shows a large wave heading towards two boats. The artist leaves the art frozen, allowing the viewer to depict their own ending to the scenario. Art in the Asian-American culture incorporates nature, but not in the same ideal as art in Asia. Asian-American artists constructs based upon the nature of a community that consistently feels as an intruder in America. Asian. The Asian artists in America shows the world a new generation of Asian art.

I find it very interesting how there’s a parallel between the slow food movement and pottery. Food is considered the “right to pleasure”. The slow movement opposes fast food in society and instead promotes enjoyment of traditional food. An approach to pottery making resuscitating antique technologies.This is the notion of finding materials to work with local materials such as food and clay materials. In addition to resuscitating antique technologies, the notion of good clay is a very important aspect for potters. Good clay is plastic, has ease of wheel-forming, or fring without warpig,slumping or bloating. Wood fire potters are concerned with how clay interacts with wood flame and ash. As a result of good clay, glaze, and firing techniques,

As a transfer student to this University I had the pleasure of prior experience with ceramics, the medium I hold dear and near to my heart. Yet, it wasn’t until I came to Southern that I realized the true potential of this craft, for I had only ever thought of ceramics in its application of functional wares. Over the course of my studies here at the University of Southern Mississippi I have branched out and away from potting and into the world of Fine Art. It is here that I have been developing my skills in both the ceramics and sculpture areas. Within each I created bodies of work disassociated from one another in an attempt to separate my courses. However, it was through pushy professors from both courses of study that I have been able to reach the level of craftsmanship and concept found in my senior show.

Ceramics, what are they? It might seem like a simple question, plates and bricks and expensive cooking knives. People use ceramics every day in their lives, but they don’t understand the huge amount of technology that goes into a nice plate. Before we can go over the cutting edge of ceramics we have to understand the technology that goes into every ceramic. The technologies associated with traditional ceramics deserve a paper of their own, but they seem vanilla compared to advanced ceramics, which have new and interesting properties that can make them useful and unlike any ceramic you see everyday. We can use the understanding of traditional ceramics as a base on which we build an