Coil Design Blog Assignment - Due Feb. 23rd 8:00am
Slab Construction - Due March 30th
Search for examples of slab construction. Collect 10 images for your sketchbook and post ONE of your favorites on this blog. Tell what it is you like about your selection.
Search for examples of slab construction. Collect 10 images for your sketchbook and post ONE of your favorites on this blog. Tell what it is you like about your selection.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Coil Pot
This is a 20th century pot made by the Frafra peoples of Ghana. The purpose of this pot was to carry water. The design is a relief decoration that seems to be unknown as to its purpose. It looks like a creature, but only the builder knows what it is.
-Andrew Lum
Friday, January 28, 2011
Coil Pot
This is a Japanese storage jar from the Muromachi period. This period was from approximately from 1336 to 1573 A.D. The japanese used these kind of pots for storing water and food. As you can see this Coil pot has no finish on it. -Trevor Carlyle
http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html#3|cluster|MMA_IAP_1039651160||Storage20jar|||
http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html#3|cluster|MMA_IAP_1039651160||Storage20jar|||
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The gourd-shaped wine pot (right) is covered in a scaly motif that increases in size the closer it is to the base of the pot. The pot was sculpted during Korea's Koryo Period, 918-1392. The design appeals to me because it is perfectly suited for embellishing a spherical ceramic sculpture. Since the scales are not rectangular, they do not conflict with the bulbous shape of the pot.
Friday, January 21, 2011
This African Zulu Pinch Pot was used for serving beer which was a key component to Zulu hospitality. This repeat motif has an impressed design of different triangles all around the pot. You can make your design by impressing into the clay or by painting it onto the surface, the clay must be very smooth for this process to work. After this process is done the sculpter painted on three differant colors to give the pot a very tribal feel.
- Ben Dodge
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Repeat Motif
Repeat Motif
This is a bowl from 13th century Iran. It was made from fritware, a type of clay made used Near East. Fritware is made by adding frit to regular clay in order to lower to firing temperature. I think that the repeat motif in this pot is the horsemen. It appears that there are large headed men riding horses in a circular pattern in two rings. It also has a design on the outer ring which is a repeat motif, a leaf-like design that is made probably with glazing. I think that the horsemen were also slip painted on, because it's a very precise design.
-Maxen Chung
-Maxen Chung
Repetitive Gecko Design
On this jar, an artist named Noreen Simplicio, divided this jar into quadrants and Noreen added 3-D geckos (made of clay) in each quadrant. I would consider the geckos a more interesting design as they are small sculptures that were manifested into a pattern instead of just a painted on pattern. The rim of the pot and the geckos were painted with black slip and covered the body of the pot with white clay.
-Sebastien Selarque
Repeat Motif Design
African Zulu Ceramic Pot Motif from ARTstor.org
This is a ceramic zulu beer pot from South Africa. It has a Repeat Motif and it is a modern pot made in the 20th century. The repeating designs on this pot was probably carved out using tools, and then glazed in a different color from the non-carved part of the pot so it would be easier to see. -Trevor Carlyle
Korean Stoneware Pot
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
This African Zulu Pinch Pot has a repeat motif. This is an impressed design. You can make your design by impressing into the clay or by painting onto the surface. In both cases, the clay must be "leather-hard". When it is leather hard, you can also burnish the surface of the clay by gently polishing it with a spoon or smooth stone.
~Carole Iacovelli
~Carole Iacovelli
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