Luis Fontanills on fri 20 sep 02
I've been curiously reading the posts on blue glazed pots. Being that I come
to ceramics by way of painting and architecture my take on this issue is a
bit different.
I believe that no color in combination or lack thereof is inherently
inferior. It is up to the artist/ceramicist to integrate form, function
(function used very broadly), and color to create a whole that is more potent
than the sum of its parts (Gestalt).
Luis Fontanills
Architect
Philip Poburka on fri 20 sep 02
Among my favourite of Mugs..is a 'Blue' one...
It is as an Indigo Blue maybe...quite dark, yet quietly
lively in it's way...a masculine and decisive Blue of
sorts...'handsome'...
I do not know just when this Mug was made, but I once saw
the Field-Kit of a Cavalry Officer as had been in the
'Indian Wars'...preserved in a Museum...and a Mug identical
to mine was in his outfit of accoutremon for the 'Western'
Campaigns.
Anyway...
My only contibution for the 'blue' business...
Now 'blue' used to be, and maybe still is, a euphemism for
certain interests as otherwise may come under the new-speak
heading of 'adult', meaning of course, 'sex'...
Whyever is that so I wonder?
Phil
las vegas
Phil
el vee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis Fontanills"
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Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:30 AM
Subject: Color Conundrum
I've been curiously reading the posts on blue glazed pots.
Being that I come
to ceramics by way of painting and architecture my take on
this issue is a
bit different.
I believe that no color in combination or lack thereof is
inherently
inferior. It is up to the artist/ceramicist to integrate
form, function
(function used very broadly), and color to create a whole
that is more potent
than the sum of its parts (Gestalt).
Luis Fontanills
Architect
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