Lee Love on fri 26 sep 03
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From: "Malcolm Schosha"
> Perhaps I should attach a health warning at the bottom of my posts.
>Something along the lines of Caution: May Ruin Your Whole Day if
>Taken Internally.
Maybe this would be a better Caution for your posts:
May cause you to bust a gut laughing. :^)
> generally accepted in contemporary ceramics. I have put a lot of work
> into pottery, and have thought about these things for many years. I
> believe that gives me a right to say what I think. It is my
> considered opinion, but I do not expect much agreement.
Actually, you gave very good advice earlier:
Earlier, Malcolm wrote:
>I tend to avoid attacking pottery of various traditions, prefering
>instead to explain what I like and why.
As Hamada once said, The art critic has beauty, but the craftsman
only has his character.
Some of my favorite pottery is Etruscan. It has a lot of feeling.
In early Japanese pottery, you can see a shift between Jomon and Yayoi.
Jomon is organic and has a lot of feeling. In Yayoi, the wheel is
introduced and intellect begins to replaces feeling to a large degree. I
see the same feeling in Etruscan work. Actually, there is a similarity of
relationship between the Etruscans and Romans, and the Jomon people and the
Yayoi Yamato people.
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Lee In Mashiko, Japan Lee@Mashiko.org
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