Where Ceramics Once Thrived

It was an exciting experience to see the skilled ceramics shaping the creation of the circle in a place where pottery once prospered. Under her hands, rotating mud grows into a work of art. After witnessing this excellent skill it is not unusual for the audience to realize that the tools on their kitchen shelves are dwarfed. Therefore, this is a logical problem. All thrown things are the same. by hand. Something cheap at home. Of course the answer is: the production of ceramic containers comes from a highly automated assembly line.

Born in 1857 in Biloxi as a German immigrant parent, started pottery in New Orleans in the 1870s, ceramics became popular. . At the age of 22, oh was invited by his friend Joseph Fortune Meyer to become an apprentice to his family pottery. He later wrote that "When I found the potter's wheel, I felt like a wild duck in the water." After learning to throw a flowerpot in New Orleans, he visited other ceramics, he saw the current state of American pottery and met with his colleagues who began to imitate the style and technology of French and Japanese ceramics . In 1883, Or returned to home Biloxi, his name is only $ 26.80 (today is about $ 620), and next to his parents' house is a handmade kiln and thrower.

Kawai Kanjir (1890-1966) is a master of pottery in Japan reflecting elaborate aesthetic principles of pottery designs of waves. Professor Hirojiro used to define "ordered poverty" once. It seems as if the beauty of simple things has been greatly expanded in a simple room with little property. More generally, Wabisabi is an attitude towards incomplete crafts. The coarse vertical shape of the bowl (tea bowl) has a pleasant obscenity that is reminiscent of an uncultured granite mass, or the face and body of the old man. Pottery is like human beings, incompleteness gives individuality, memory, and personality.