Dwiggins, Sandra (NCI) on wed 20 mar 02
of pottery
Wow!!! Pottery has joined the big time. You can imagine how many people
have been gifted with horribly thrown mugs from people to whom they are
related or have as friends...and are in the scriptwriting business in LA.
In a way, it's wonderful because it shows that it's not that easy to make
beautiful things. But is there a downside to it too? I don't think I've
seen any movies that show painters making terrible things, or sculptors
making uglies...it does give one pause.....
Sandy
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From: MOLINA, RAFAEL [mailto:RAFAEL.MOLINA@TCCD.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:24 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: "Showtime" now joins "Ghost" and other films which contain
scenes of pottery
Saturday evening my girlfriend and I went to see "Showtime" with Robert
DeNiro and Eddie Murphy. While not what some would consider great cinema,
we laughed through the whole picture (does that mean we're burgeois?).
I never thought I would see Robert DeNiro attempting to throw a pot on a
Brent wheel (with a copy of Ceramics: Art and Perception hung on the wall in
the background). His character said his marriage counselor suggested he
pick up a hobby so he took up pottery. His "hobby" was a running gag
throughout the movie. In addition to the scene with him throwing there were
many examples of his poorly thrown coffee mugs and he even gave Murphy's
character a small pot to hold spare change.
When it comes out on DVD I'll have to buy it and show my class! ;-D
Chao,
Rafael
Rafael Molina, MFA
Assistant Professor of Art
Department of Music, Art, and Dance
Tarrant County College-Southeast Campus
2100 Southeast Parkway
Arlington, TX 76018-3144
(817) 515-3711
(817) 515-3189 fax
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Longtin, Jeff on wed 20 mar 02
of pottery
Rafael,
For a great movie that covers several bases you should check out "Camille".
It stars Isabelle Rosalinni and Gerard Depardeau as sculptors Camille
Claudel and Auguste Rodin. It has an opening scene showing Camille digiing
for clay in victorian Paris
and later it shows her sloshing plaster in Rodin's studio. Though not so
much a potters movie it does a great job of showing the "sensuality" of our
mediums, my mediums anyway, plaster and clay.
The movie suggests that Rodin appropriated some of Camilles sculpting skills
and claimed them for his own so it also has something of a "feminist" feel
to it.
Jeff Longtin
Complex Molds Made Easy
-----Original Message-----
From: MOLINA, RAFAEL [mailto:RAFAEL.MOLINA@TCCD.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:24 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: "Showtime" now joins "Ghost" and other films which contain
scenes of pottery
Saturday evening my girlfriend and I went to see "Showtime" with Robert
DeNiro and Eddie Murphy. While not what some would consider great cinema,
we laughed through the whole picture (does that mean we're burgeois?).
I never thought I would see Robert DeNiro attempting to throw a pot on a
Brent wheel (with a copy of Ceramics: Art and Perception hung on the wall in
the background). His character said his marriage counselor suggested he
pick up a hobby so he took up pottery. His "hobby" was a running gag
throughout the movie. In addition to the scene with him throwing there were
many examples of his poorly thrown coffee mugs and he even gave Murphy's
character a small pot to hold spare change.
When it comes out on DVD I'll have to buy it and show my class! ;-D
Chao,
Rafael
Rafael Molina, MFA
Assistant Professor of Art
Department of Music, Art, and Dance
Tarrant County College-Southeast Campus
2100 Southeast Parkway
Arlington, TX 76018-3144
(817) 515-3711
(817) 515-3189 fax
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