cHuCk on mon 11 sep 00
> comments others have made, (but Mel won't let that happen) the aspiration
> to fire a pot so that the surface looks like it was salt-fired isvery
> disturbing.
One answer to your question would be in the case that one was trying to
prevent the crazing problem with the interface between liner glaze and
exterior salting. I sell my ware as functional and do not like to have any
crazing at all.
Another reason is many artists may be limited to (not that it has to be a
limitation) electric firing.
Your analogy to Tupperware is a little strained. One is glaze and one is
plastic. Although the funk artists that make clay look like another
material might disagree that clay should always look like clay. I'm sure
Marilyn Lavine
(sp) would rather use clay than leather although her work is sumulated
leather.
Are you saying that only salt glaze should look like salt glaze. How do you
feel about acrylic
paint that is used to look like oil or vice versa? We all need to find room
for naturalism, but not at the exspense
of experimentation and exploration.
I doubt that Zatkin is trying to "doop" the public with a "fake" salt glaze.
It would be like disregarding synthesized music as "fake" or somehow without
merit because it aspires to sound like the original instrument it was
sampled from.
BTW I also use synthetic wood ash glazes and they do look a lot like the
natural wood ash glazes that run all over my shelves.
I do agree wholehog that when I sell my work it must be labeled as what it
really is and I often spend time explaining to my customers how I make my
ware and why I choose to do what I do. It would be wrong to say that it was
"Salt Glaze" if it is not.
There is a big difference between illusion and dillusion.
Chuck
> Though I have not followed this thread very closely and I may be repeating
> comments others have made, (but Mel won't let that happen) the aspiration
> to fire a pot so that the surface looks like it was salt-fired isvery
> disturbing.
>
> Why aim to make a uniquely individual clay form look like something it is
> not? Why not make the work and celebrate what it is? Next we'll be
> talking about glazes that make clay look like tupperware.
>
> dave
>
> David McBeth, MFA
> Associate Professor of Art
> 330 B Gooch Hall
> Department of Art, Dance and Theatre
> University of Tennessee at Martin
> Martin, Tennessee 38238
>
> 901-578-7416
>
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