ceramicsmsmc2020

 Betty Woodman is an American ceramicist who was born on May 14th, 1930 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and died on January 2nd, 2018. She attended Alfred University school of Craft from 1948-1950. Betty began pottery in the 1950s when she was 16 years old as a production potter. As her career went on she was featured at many highly respected museums like the Metropolitan Museum of art, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She ended her career as a teacher at the University of Colorado. I picked this piece because I really enjoyed the artwork in it.

 Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. He was born on October 25th, 1881, and died on April 8th, 1973. Picasso is one of the most well-known artists that the world has ever seen. As a young boy, Picasso showed extraordinary artwork and was very highly regarded. He began training with his first teacher, his father, in the 1890s. His first works were mostly plates and bowls then elevated from there. He then went on to make other artwork of glass and vases and other kinds of expert ceramics. Pablo Picasso paved the way for many future artists. I picked this piece because I really liked the design he made on this.

Coil Pot Pinch Pot Slump Pot Birdhouse Finger Puppet Saki and Sushi Set (soy sauce dishes broke)

  Euan Craig is a Australian potter who lives in Japan. He discovered pottery when he was 14 years old and went on to get a Bachelors in ceramics at Latrobe University. He ran Castle Donnington Pottery for 4 years. He moved to Mashiko Japan but later got displaced from his home there when a earthquake and nuclear disaster hit. He reloacted to Minakami in Gunma. He makes wood fired porcelain pottery. 

  Lucy Lewis was born in Sky City, New Mexico on November 2nd. At the age of 8 she started studying and making pottery with her great aunt. She was a mother to 9 children, where 7 of them became potters themselves. Lucy's designs were brought on by the Chacoan culture. In 1950 was when she started to get recognition for her work and when she won the blue ribbon at the annual Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial. Her pottery is made from gray clay and formed from coils. 

Betty Woodman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1930. She went to the School for American Craftsmen in Alfred, New York. She got involved with pottery at the age of 20 and during a time when pottery wasn't a woman's work. She traveled all over and picked up different techniques and creativity through traveling that gave her ideas for her works. She included paintings, ink, lacquer and wax in her works and didn't limit it to just anything. She wanted the world to know that the options were limitless! 

  Betty Woodman was an American ceramicist. Woodman started her career making plain practical pottery as a leading ceramist whose innovative shapes and painterly use of color earned her international acclaim. While her ambitious experiments with clay have brought great improvements in her art, although her baroque, expressive forms are no longer purely utilitarian, it still refers to a functional purpose. I enjoy this piece because the design is fascinating. I like that the vase is slanted, and I like the swirl designs.

  Betty Woodman was a famous ceramist. She started pottery classes when she was 16 years old.  Woodman began her career in the 1950s as a production potter. Her career moved from functional pottery to fresh and exuberant art culminating in a retrospective show at the  Metropolitan Museum of Art  in New York in 2006, the first such retrospective for a living, female ceramicist, and a solo show at the  Institute of Contemporary Arts  in London in 2016 with the title  Theatre of the Domestic . I chose this piece of artwork because I thought they were very interesting shapes and the colors that were used mixed very well together. I think i liked how i could not figure out what the pieces are supposed to be or represent.

Betty Woodman is an artist who began her career making simple functional pottery. She then transformed her simple pieces into more colorful and nonfunctional pieces. I really liked the piece above because I have never seen a pitcher in that shape, or with that type of handle before. I also like how the art on the pitcher is very random and is done in different colors. 

  Betty Woodman is another artist that I find very interesting. With this piece here, I love that when separated it is its own piece but when placed together it creates a whole image. The shape of the piece is very interesting as well. It looks like it's a smashed plate. There was just something about this piece that had caught my attention.

  Betty Woodman is a ceramic artist who was best known for her exuberantly colorful and inventive work which gained recognition in the early 1970's.  She often worked with a deconstructed version of the traditional ceramic vessel, with her pieces ranging from massive site-specific murals to fragmentary columns and carpet-like floor pieces. I picked this piece because I have never seen a pitcher like this, with such on oddly shaped lower half. I also really like the colors and design that were used on this piece in that it almost looks like it has been splatter painted.

Betty Woodman was a ceramic artist who gained recognition in the early 1970’s. She was best known for her colorful and inventive work. Her pieces range from massive site-specific murals to fragmentary columns and carpet-like floor pieces. Betty studied art at Alfred University. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

Betty Woodman is a ceramic artist that is best known for her  exuberantly colorful and inventive work which gained recognition in the early 1970s. She often worked with a deconstructed version of the traditional ceramic vessel, with her pieces ranging from massive site-specific murals to fragmentary columns and carpet-like floor pieces.  

 I really enjoyed looking at Bettys work. It’s very whimsical and colorful. I really enjoy the shapes of the ceramics that she does. I am especially fond of her pitchers. I chose this one mainly because of the coloring. I love how the colors go together. I think it is one of her works that is less “crazy”.

  Betty Woodman was an American ceramic artist who was born in Connecticut. She began creating functional pottery and then went into creating fun art pieces. She has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

  Pablo Picasso is most famous for his paintings, especially for his self portrait. Between 1946 and 1973, he created a collection of original ceramic works. Picasso was always experimenting with new art techniques. I read that Picasso got into ceramics because he was intrigued at how inexpensive it was and the idea that average people could afford his art after the war. 

  Joan Miro was a painter, sculptor, and ceramicist that was born in Barcelona. His work has been interpreted as many different things, including surrealism, fauvism, and expressionism. I like how his personal style shines through in both his paintings and his ceramics.

  Betty Woodman created this piece called the "Pillow Pitcher" in 1983. She began her career as a potter making functional wares, but moved toward a more decorative and expressive style in the 1970s.   This piece is one of my favorites that I have looked at throughout the semester. The vibrant colors really drew me into this piece and the colors just gave off a liveliness energy. Woodman individualizes each of her unusual pots by designing different spouts and handles. In this pillow pitcher, the spout is simultaneously short and elongated, complementing the horizontal form. I just think it is so beautiful and this style is something that I would love to incorporate in my home. 

  It's silly to say but I never realized that Picasso also did ceramics. I had always assumed he was just a painter. I have honestly no clue what this is and if it is supposed to be used. To me, it looks like a pitcher. It seems as if the liquid is supposed to be poured out of the jug she is holding. I just find this piece silly looking but also interesting at the same time.

  Pablo Picasso was a 20th-century Spanish artist who specialized in painting, printing, stage-designing and sculpting. His contribution to the creation of cubism, an art movement that stylizes in geometric shapes, gained him worldwide fame and admiration that is still discussed today. Picasso devoted himself to his art and the development of modern art for 80 years until his death. I like this piece because of how it is painted. The pot looks like an owl or a bird with wings, feet, and feathers. The color of the “bird” is also very vibrant and appealing to the eye.

  Pablo Picasso is a very well known artist around the world. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, and theatre designer. He helped to invent many art pieces, such as the collage, constructed sculpture, and co-founded the Cubist movement. This piece above is one of Picasso's ceramics. I thought it was really interesting as it is shaped as a fish, but seems to look like it could be used as a watering can. 

  Pablo Picasso was a famous painter, sculptor, and ceramist.  Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the  Cubist  movement, the invention of  constructed sculpture . I noticed that picasso's pieces of work were very interesting and unique. He also had several different pieces of animals he had done. I chose this piece because I thought a lot of skill had went into to the design of this. It has many little details incorporated into the monkey which takes skill and precision. 

Pablo Picasso started creating ceramics works at the end of the 1940's.  Picasso went on to create clay pieces throughout the last years of his life. He initially found that working with clay was a relaxing summer respite from the more strenuous demands of painting. He began with simple utilitarian objects, such as plates and bowls. He then proceeded to create more ambitious forms, such as pitchers and vases, where the handles became facial or anatomical parts of the animal depicted. I picked this piece because I liked how it depicted a fish and how Picasso used the handle to represent an anatomical part of its body.

  Betty Woodman is a very current artist of this century. She attended art school and went on to work as a professor in Fine Arts at the University of Colorado. She was an avid potter and her individuality in her works shines through. Woodman draws inspiration from a great number of diverse sources. Her craftmanship is as beautiful as it is functional. Her use of bright colors and her willingness to experiment has set her artistry apart. She has traveled the world and has collaborated with many amazing artists. She has been recognized and awarded by the art world on multiple levels. She was received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has also been a guest artist as the Manufacture National de Sevres in France. In her later work she focused on sculpting nonfunctional pieces displaying beautiful landscapes and incorporating other cultures within her work. I chose the piece I personally found to be the most beautiful. Of all the artists we have researche...

Joan Miro was not limited to the world of pottery in terms of his scope of artistry. He attended business school in addition to art school although after recovering from typhoid he decided to devote his life to his art- work. He worked as a painter, ceramicist, and sculptor throughout his life and was very inspired by his scenic birthplace, the seaport city of Barcelona. He worked in Paris throughout his life and would go back and forth between there and Montroig. He enjoyed exploring various mediums and his distinct individuality came through in all of his work. Towards the end of his life he focused on public pieces. He created work for everyone, and these public displays/ monumental pieces became a huge part of the artist he was known to be. In his later years he paid special attention to symbolism and messages embedded in his works. The piece I chose stood out to be because of its unique shape and colors. I also found the art on the pitcher to be really original. 

 Pablo Picasso is arguably one of the most well known artists in the world. His works can be found displayed all over the world and although he is primarily known for his paintings he was also a gifted potter. In the later years of his life he thoroughly enjoyed the world of ceramics and even went as far to call his works with clay as a break from painting. He not only enjoyed creating functional pottery such as plates and bowls but sculptures built within vases and other forms of glassware. His pottery was a creative outlet for Picasso and he drew inspiration from greek methodical creatures, animals and other playful sources. 

 Betty Woodman was an american ceramist who was born in 1930 and died in 2018. She was a leading ceramist whose inventive forms and painterly use of color have won her international praise. She started out making functional pottery but eventually progressed to more ambitious forms of pottery. Woodman's art has been inspired by diverse sources, ranging from Etruscan and Minoa to Tange and majolica ceramics. 

 At first I did not know what to expect when I was told that Pablo Picasso also dabbled in ceramics. But looking at his work, I’m not sure why I’d thought it’s be different. He definitely brought his art style to his pottery. Most of his work seems very whimsical to me. I enjoy it very much. Most ceramic work tends to be very beautiful and pristine but I enjoy how he brings such a silly nature to art work.

  Joan Miro is a Spanish artist who made various different craft work. He was a painter, sculptor, and ceramist. Joan dedicated his live to his work and actually has a museum dedicated for his work called the Fundacio Joan Miro located in his home city of Barcelona. He is most known for his out of the box designs he used on his work. I enjoy this piece because I’ve never seen a design that really resembles this one.  

  Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for a wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His work is categorized into periods; the Blue Period, the Rose Period, the African-influenced Period, Analytic Cubism, and Synthetic Cubism. I picked these pieces because they're unique looking and I like the style he used for them.

       Pablo Picasso made this Wood Owl (Choulette) in 1968, this white earthenware clay, decoration in engines under partial brushed glaze. Picasso became enamored by ceramics in 1946, when the 60-year old artist stumbled upon a pottery fair near his summer home in the South of France. Picasso is known for his prolific output, designed 633 different ceramic works, ranging from carved edition plates to unique bird-shaped pitchers. This piece of work is colorful and fun.   

 Picasso was born in the 20th century and is argued to be the most important figure in art from this time period. He is most well known for his modern art paintings but he is also known for his ceramics. He got his inspiration for his ceramics from the Riviera and the Mediterranean bright colors. He began with simple utilitarian objects such as plates and bowls, and then continued to make more ambitious objects with Greek design. His ceramics now sell for millions of dollars.

 Joan Miro is a potter who made many plates, vases, pebbles, and objects. He was known for his designs and paintings on canvas as well. He worked with other potters to make works that resembled Spanish ceramics.

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, print maker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his life in France. Picasso's work is often categorized in periods.    While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the  Blue Period , the  Rose Period , the  African-influenced Period , Analytic  Cubism , and Synthetic Cubism, also referred to as the  Crystal period . Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a  neoclassical  style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of  Surrealism . His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.

  Joan Miro was a Spanish artist who painted and sculpted artworks that were combined with abstract and surrealism. His artworks told stories of poetry and the harshness of the modern lifestyle. His art style would change all the time—from abstract and surrealism to abstract and naturalism. I enjoy this piece because of the colors. I like the blue against the white. Additionally, the different figures drawn are fascinating to look at. I like that the figures are abstract and almost indistinguishable from making out. 

  Joan Miro is known for making very unique ceramics. He did not agree with mass production, therefore he made sure the pieces he created were all different from each other. I really enjoyed this piece that he created above. The different color glazes he decided to use make the piece really stand out. I also enjoy the way he decorated it with random designs. 

  Joan Miro was a famous Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramist. His work is interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style.  He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the  subconscious  mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike.  I chose this piece of artwork because i thought the design was very unique and i do see his childlike tendencies throughout his work. There are a lot of scribbles and dots within his work. I also felt like this piece looked like it could have been from the stone age and he was making it look like cave drawings.

  Joan Miro is an artist who produced hundreds of ceramics artworks during his career. This included whole series of plates, vases, pebbles and other objects. Each one was truly unique and typical of an artist who despised mass production. I picked this piece because I really liked how the plate portrayed a face and had a very dirty look to it. I thought this plate was very interesting, but I'm not sure if I would eat my food off of it. 

Joan Miro was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Barcelona. He began drawing at the age of 7 and later studied at the fine art academy at La Llotja. He attended both business school as well as art school, but later abandoned the business world for his art. His pieces are very colorful and abstract. I chose this piece because of it’s unique shape and design. 

  I think Joan Miro might be one of my favorite potters that were shown to the class. While looking through her pieces of art, I noticed that a lot of them used primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. After looking through all of her pieces, I chose this mug. I don't know what itis that drawn me to it but the mug looks like something I would buy because it looks cool. I love how she incorporated her last name into the piece. I didn't know what the scribbles were until I realized that it says "Miro." I love the cute little creature that is on the mug and I also love the handle as well.

Joan Miro produced hundreds of ceramic artwork during his career, including whole series of plates, vases, pebbles, other objects. His work across mediums grew organically where he would develop ideas and produce visual languages which could be reused on multiple occasions and sometimes repeated across different materials.  I  found his artwork to be very different and unique.