Wyndham Dennison on mon 6 jul 09
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> So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, Grandfat
> her ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since Grandfat=
he
> r had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a thick, ugly claybowl=
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A maker of furniture goes and hews down a tree. He cuts and saws the
timber and makes a table for himself. With the scrap he heats his house
and with another larger piece , carves out an idol, places it on the
mantel and proceeds to worship it and calls it his god, the self same
wood that he burns for heat and the table he eats from.
Bill wrote:
> The Japanese aesthetic is and was different
> than ours ever will be. Traditional Japanese pots were natural, had
> coarseness, simplicity, were unpretentious, on and on. A Hamada tea
> bowl was several hundred dollars when he was alive. Sometimes we just
> have to look...to see, then maybe we'll get it. Picasso never said what
> his painting were suppose to say, he left that up to the person looking
> at his work. It was interesting for me to be able to hold one of
> Picasso's bronze pieces when At the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City. Ken
> Ferguson rook me to lunch with the curator and after words he took us to
> his office. There it was, one of six castings of what was probably the
> first sculptural Cubist bronze Picasso did. It was amazing to think
> what was going on in his head when he was working on this piece.
Wars have been fought over the location and the object, the Holy Grail,
yet the empty cup of the Last Supper is just that an empty cup.
What good is an empty cup in a museum. If the tradition and the reason
for the vessel was one of unpretentiousness then an unused cup in a
museum is enlightening.
Wyndham
Lee Love on sat 11 jul 09
The problem is, not all 2 and 3D artists are good thinkers or writers.
Competent writing is helpful, if you have the talent.
--
Lee Love, Minneapolis
"The tea ceremony bowl is the ceramic equivalent of a sonnet: a
small-scale, seemingly constricted form that challenges the artist to
go beyond mere technical virtuosity and find an approach that both
satisfies and transcends the conventions." -- Rob Sliberman
full essay: http://togeika.multiply.com/journal/item/273/
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