Ceramic Art Treasures: Throwing an Apple 

I am a beginning thrower on the wheel with Ceramics, and I am very bad at it. I was searching for videos that could help me understand how to throw better. I am across this video. The Ceramicist is throwing an apple in 2mins. I am barely center my clay in that amount of time, so for a beginning on the wheel watching this video, I am amazed how they made this apple. I enjoy watching it not only because they made an apple but also because how quickly they make it, and their techniques are elegant and smooth.

 This apple is truly a Ceramic Art Treasure!

Hopefully, I can make one soon..

Ceramic Art Treasures: Pablo Picasso 

Finding out that Pablo Picasso was also a ceramist was very exciting news. I have Picasso has a painter, and I wanted to look at his ceramic work. Just as much as I love his paintings, I fell in love with his ceramic pieces. He not only did a couple but hundreds just as he sketched all the time. One of my favorite quotes from Picasso is, “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” He truly did that within his work. Picasso created unique forms and shapes with animals, women, and objects. Finding Picasso’s ceramic art pieces marts him, Ceramic Artists Treasure!

More information on Picasso: 

http://www.madoura.com/foreword.html 

Ceramic Art Treasures: Ceramic Assemblage 

Dennis Shields 

Jeanne Quinn 

I was searching for Ceramic Assemblage artists and came across Dennis Shields and Jeanne Quinn. 

Both Dennis and Jeanne incorporate ready mades or found objects in their works of arts. In Dennis unconventional teapots he put a plastic toy gun as the handle of the teapot, and made the skull as the body of the teapot. Jeanne's exhibitions called A Thousand Tiny Deaths she has balloons coming out of ceramic pots, giving the image as if the balloons were slowing coming out and when they come out will break the pot. I find both of these Artists to be very imaginative and unique in there works. 

They are Ceramic Art Treasures! 

For more information of these Artists: 

http://www.jeannequinnstudio.com/index.html

http://www.saatchionline.com/dennisshields

Ceramic Art Treasures: Daniel Bare 

Daniel Bare plays around with the every-day object, the cup, and transforms it into a powerful, yet,   beautiful way.  Bare artist statement, 

"In my work, I examine the impact of overproduction, consumption and disposal of resources to show how these actions affect ecological balance. I feel an over-powering sense of gluttony and greed when I see the plethora of disregarded products that are briefly used and disposed casually. This cycle is indicative of a human view of resources and the world as an endless and miraculously self-renewing material. Curiously, one could see a beauty and power in the vastness of multiples and the sheer numbers of objects that are crafted everyday without notice." 

Bare's way of perceiving this power of greed and consumption is a refreshing viewpoint compared to the consumerism culture that we live in today. 

To see more of Bare's work below is the link for his website: 

http://www.danielbare.com/index.html

His viewpoint makes his work Ceramic Art Treasures!