Helen Bates on thu 2 may 02
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
Greetings All,
As you can see from this, I have gotten quite far behind in posting the urls
of
sites I've surfed to. I have revisited all these tonight, so can say they
are
current as of Wednesday, May 1, 2002.
Clay Art Center
http://www.clayartcenter.org/
This is a clay facility Port Chester NY started by Katherine Choy and
Henry Okamoto in the late 1950's. Courses, workshops with outside artists,
gallery shows (staff and special invitational shows) Online gallery of
current
and past shows has examples of work by many major clay workers. Thumbnails
are
clickable to good sized good quality photos of the pieces. Sometimes
clicking
text titles gets other images, so try any coloured text titles as well as
the
thumbnails.
ArtMecca - Ceramics Thumbnails
http://www.artmecca.com/ArtMecca02/Common/Category.asp?FT=Y&Request=Ceramics
&Path=OriginalArt
Lots of good work. Little description of pieces, but click on the "Eye" or
the
text: "Match this!", to see more by whichever artist's work you're looking
at.
A good feature is the choice of viewing in a window with black background.
You can
also send E-Cards from the site. Brief Artists' statements and bios are
given.
There are many interesting pieces in this Dealer's site.
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/vangogh/slideshow/slide_lrg02.html
This particular pages shows the image of a stoneware sculpture by Paul
Gaugin.
Clayzeness Whistleworks Ocarinas And Porcelain Flutes
http://www.clayz.com/
Sandi and Richard Schmidt have a fine site though it's hard to discover
their names.
However, they did link to a Crafts Report article about them. One likeable
aspect
of the site is the music that plays as you read the fingering and the words
of
simple old-timey songs there.
Karen Bunting (UK)
http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?width=3&min=0&max=24&categ
ory=artist&subcat=Karen_Bunting
Quiet functional work with an interesting contrast in colour and decoration,
trim and basic form.
Virtual Ceramic Gallery at Janet Freda Kaiser's "The Chapel of Art"
http://www.the-chapel-of-art.freeserve.co.uk/346ceramicgallery.html
We may all have Clayarter Janet Kaiser's ""The Chapel of Art" bookmarked,
or in our "favourites" file, but this time, I'm giving the direct link
to the Gallery's exhibiting clay artists, some of whom are quite famous,
all of whom are worth visiting, and some of whom are not even from Wales!
Judy Adams, Jan Beeny, Ruty Benjamini, Celia Brown, Fiona Clai Brown,
Richard Cheshire, Rosemary Cripps, Ray Dunn, David Frith, Margaret Frith,
Teena Gould, Frank Hamer, Janet Hamer, John Hesselberth, Linda John,
Daiva Kojelyte Marrow, Susan Luker, Kim Middleton, Jan Mullin, John Mullin,
David Pritchard, Carol Ray Nino, John Reading, Alan Snape, Rhian Templeman,
Bronwyn Williams-Ellis, Helen Wright
MARIO SARABIA (BOLIVIA)
http://www.pachamamabolivia.com/ESarabia.HTM
This Bolivian Potter does fine wheel-thrown vessels, slab-built sculptural
pieces, wall tiles, and free-standing two-dimensional works of art in clay.
The surfaces of his pieces, whether vessels, three-dimensional sculptures,
or two-dimensional pieces, are used as "canvasses". Colour, relief, and
sculptural additions are used by the artist to relay his thematic pictorial
work to the viewer.
The Edinburgh College of Art
http://www.eca.ac.uk/front.html#
Click on "Get In",
Click on "Content", Click on "Degree Show 2001",
Paint a picture while the page is loading,
(BEWARE, the Flash applet will eventually start to run slowly,
even on a fairly fast system... luckily, there's a warning as this
starts to happen, and you can elect to stop the applet.)
Click on "Click on Here to Enter Site",
Hover the mouse pointer over the moving menu strip,
Click on "Design and Applied Art",
Select "Ceramics."
No names of the Degree Show Exhibitors, and the images are not large,
unfortunately, because they look interesting.
If you are very, very clever, you can get a look at the 1997, 1998,
1999, and 2000 Degree Shows.
(It's all Flash Macromedia stuff.)
The Victoria and Albert Museum's Images Online Site:
http://bertie.vam.ac.uk/exploring/imagesonline/?version=1§ion=imagesonli
ne
Or visit the home page of the site:
http://bertie.vam.ac.uk and click on "Exploring", then on "Images Online"
Search for any ceramics term for images available. (Many)
For instance, the single term: "earthenware" gives 83 images.
You can broaden the search by using the term "Ceramics".
Alternatively, you may narrow your search by adding a timeline or a country,
(although these sometimes fail to load the images)
or you may select "Ceramics" from the box called "Classification."
For a more limited but more coherent look at the V&A's ceramics collection:
http://bertie.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/ceramics/?version=1§ion=cera
mics
Choose a sub-collection from the drop-down menu
"Select a Gallery within this Group" in the centre of the page.
Note that the other galleries in the menu to the left may also have a
piece or two of ceramic art on view.
"Terracotta" is a show running currently until the Summer (2002)
http://bertie.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/terracottas/
he University of Michigan Museum of Art
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/m/musart/simple.html
Simple Search: enter one word.
Some words, like "stoneware" net you hundreds of images (thumbnails can be
clicked to enlarge and get terse information about the piece.)
In the "Cross Comparison", choose "All Categories" or "Type" then type"
ceramic".
This gets over 700 images, which is a little large to deal with, so entering
an
artist's name or a word like "stoneware" will narrow it down.
If you think you'd like to see "tea bowls", search for "tea", not
"bowls" and you'll have fewer hits to go through. Did someone mention
"Tea-dust" glaze on the list? There aare a couple of Chinese vases with
that
glaze in the collection.
(The hyphen matters: type in "tea-dust" to get directly to the two vases in
question.
To search for two separate words, select "Boolean" and you may enter two
words and
choose "and" or "or".
A neat feature is the "Comparison Search" in which you can do two searches
on one page.
These can be done in "Simple" or "Boolean" searches.
20th Century Design and Decorative Arts - Studio and Art Pottery
http://www.c20-design.com/
Amazing selection of early British studio pottery.
Also Swedish pottery and "Others".
Keverne Gallery - London, UK - Winter 2001 Exhibition
http://www.keverne.co.uk/winter2001/winter2001.html
Extensive sales of antique Chinese ware from several eras.
Click on "Ceramic" (I could wish pictures could be zoomed...)
Thumbnails of several past sales are available as well.
It's amazing stuff. Who's had it all this time?
Bell Fraser - Cape Breton Clay
http://www.margaree.capebretonisland.com/capebretonclay/welc.html
Bell Fraser was born and raised in the Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
community of Margaree, where she now works.
Her wheel-thrown tableware features the application of well done fully
three-dimensional sculptures of fish, shelfish, ahd crustaceans.
An interesting feature is the old Cape Breton hen house that is now
home to both real and ceramic chickens.
Lombok Pottery (Indonesian)
http://www.naturebali.com/ALL_ABOUT_LOMBOK_POTTERY.htm
Terracotta garden pieces and serving vessels
Helen
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