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

What to archive?

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

Akio Takamori

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

Proscenium

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

active framing

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

Moche, Peru

Nazca and Moche, Peru

Mimbres

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”

Robert Dawson

Brendan Tang (destabilisation) Hugo Kaagman

Maxima Ansian

Molly Hatch

Barbara Diduk

Barbara Diduk

Michelle Erickson

Raed Yassin

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

Kangxi, China

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

Laurent Craste

Rookwood pottery, 1900

Rockwood Rozenburg 1909

The Continuous, all around surface

Perceptual and psychological reversal

Rookwood Art Pottery

Frederick Hurten Rhead

Bing&Grondahl

Grayson Perry

The Surface as Volume

Corrida, 1950’sPablo Picasso

Helen Beard

3 D surface (!) surface as formLéopold L. Foulem

LA landscapeKen Price, Club Atomica

Paul Mathieu

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)

Joe Pinkelman

Joe Pinkelman

Paul Mathieu, “The Arrows of Time (for S.W.H.)”, 1990

Karl Skoe Fredriksen

Jeanie Mah

detailJeanie Mah

Myungjin Kim Soo-Jong Ree

Jonathan Hopp/Sarah Auslander Urban Vases 2004

Sheila Bridges

Suzanne Wolfe

Marek Cecula

Kevin SnipesBeth Lo

Viola Frey, 1977Edward Eberle, 2000

James Lawton

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

Ryan Hurst

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

Robin Best

Janet Deboos Pots on pots on pots

Janet Deboos

Felicity Aylieff

Zhenhan Hao

Darien Johnson

Darien Johnson

Philip Eglin, bucket

Kurt Weiser

Jason Walker

Jason Walker

Paul Maseyk

Richard Notkin

detailRichard Notkin

Richard 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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