Ceramics - free form sculpture 2

See the sculpture examples below.  Which is your favorite?

Constantin Brancusi





Don Frost

Art One - Glazed Pottery

We will be glazing your clay pots this week.  Here are some examples of glazed pieces of pottery.  What do you think?

Art Two - more Masks

Below are more masks from around the world.

Ghana




Tibet




Mexico



Japan

Ceramics - Free Form Sculpture

1. Jean (Hans) Arp

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2. Jean Arp or Hans Arp was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. 
4. Born: September 16, 1886, Strasbourg, France
5. Died: June 7, 1966, Basel, Switzerland
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7. Below are examples of his work.  What do you think?  How is it similar to your free form clay work?
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Ceramics - Wheel Throwing videos

Watch the following videos and comment:

You will need to complete a wheel thrown piece for Quarter 1&2.

Centering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMWQ7eIbp98

Opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xupn8MRTF-8

Pulling the walls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RoCMYBoIII

Art Two - more Picasso

Below are more examples of Picasso's work (in chronological order).  Thoughts?

Art One - Picasso and Stravinsky

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist. (1881-1973)
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian born composer. (1882-1971)

They were both pioneers within their own movements, but Picasso and Stravinsky tend to be most famous for their pre-war output, (think The Firebird for music, and Guernica is a huge painting) and their wartime and post-war work is often less discussed.

They became friends in Italy just before the First World War in 1917, brought together by Sergei Diaghilev, the savvy impresario of the Ballet Russes who was toying with the idea of commissioning a ballet. The two men immediately hit it off and spent a great deal of time immersing themselves in the popular culture of Rome and Naples.



Picasso is on the right and Stravinsky is on the left.


Picasso's drawing of Stravinsky 1920.




Picasso and Stravinsky on the left.

Stravinsky and Picasso continued their friendship by exchanging small pieces of art by mail. Stravinsky wrote a five bar sketch of clarinet music for Picasso on a hotel telegram, in a clear effort to capture the essence of his friend’s Cubism (one of Picasso's art movements). He used complicated rhythms, and also turned the telegram on its side so that the horizontal lines became vertical. This presented a new and surprising perspective on the familiar object whilst also physically cutting through his music. The piece, though barely a piece at all, explores Cubist ideas in a musical context. 

The first real collaboration between Picasso and Stravinsky was ‘Ragtime’. Picasso’s cover art uses one continuous line which loops around into the figures of two musicians, whilst also cutting into and through their silhouettes. Stravinsky’s music is also full of movement - assimilating the ‘ragtime’ flavor, and he disrupts the traditional frame of the music with complicated additive rhythms and heavy use of dotted notes and triplets.

Both the music and the drawing are full of movement; you imagine that Picasso drew the sketch in one fluid motion. If you look closely at the heads of the two musicians you can almost see a complete treble clef and a pair of barred quavers, signs that Picasso was integrating Stravinsky’s symbols with his own.

Ceramics - jug heads

See below.  What do you think?  Which do you like and why?  Which do you not like and why?

Art Two - Picasso

Below are some of the Picasso paintings we will look at in class.  Which is your favorite?

Art One - Coil Pottery

Below are examples of symmetrical clay pots.  Which is your favorite and why?