Kyogi Koose Earthenware Bowl

However, the golden age of Japanese ceramics did not really begin until the sixteenth century when the tea master Sen no Rikyū popularized the tea ceremony. In his refinement of this art form, Rikyū found beauty in the earthly and natural forms of pottery and thus commissioned the production of “raku ware,” which today, is considered the pinnacle of Japanese pottery. Notable for its ruggedness and imperfections, raku ware made Rikyū into a central figure in the establishment of the wabi-sabi aesthetic. In the beginning, the textures and colors of wabi-sabi vessels were left to develop naturally. However, over time, several wabi-sabi artists began experimenting and even developed techniques to intentionally create these alterations. Obviously, the exact shape and form of an imperfection cannot be controlled but the intention can be realized in an oxymoronic “controlled natural look.”

The texture of the painting itself is probably rough. The artist makes no great attempt at conveying implied texture to the viewer. It seems as though implying texture may detract from the overall attitude of the piece. Altogether texture doesn’t play a huge role in this work of art.

The potter does not look at the design or shape of piece of pottery until the complete piece is finished. Once the pot is finished, the potter looks at it and if there is something wrong with it, such as it is lop-sided or the design is corked, he/she takes it as a learning experience , and will know what not to do the next time (“Museum Notes” 3).

First, I would like to assess that considering all these pieces are made in the same era they all have a different feel to them. To me each piece is so

All the colors in this piece are more dark, and no color really stand out above the rest. Even though the surface of this painting was very un-even, I could still see the shapes, colors and patterns. For the canvas of the painting, it doesn’t look like something you’d paint on. It appears that he just nailed a bunch of wooden planks on top of each other and next to each other and painted on them. Parts of this piece were probably painted with a brush, and maybe spray paint as

First piece is a shallow bowl, hand-coiled and outdoor fired, about 6 inches width, and 2 inches length, and height. The piece was made in america, in 1901 by Nampeyo, in Arizona. The bowl looks almost wooden, the artist probably used brown clay. The painting inside the bowl, looks like a abstract bird form, with a stylized eagle tail. Nampeyo used black and red paint, and a lot of different shapes. Starting from the bottom, it looks like two triangles that curve and join the black thin lines in, the inside rim of the bowl. Above that are two lines probably indicating that she moving on to a different part of the painting, there's a square but its curved in on both sides in the middle there are two half moons, painted red, forming a circle, leaving a uncolored oval

In the cleavage area has vertical line as well as horizontal on the dress. The detail the artist put into making sure the dress, belt had the right amount of details to catch everyone’s eye who took time to view his figure. The vertical line on the tassel and the knot tie just right to display the left side of the figure waist line. Indicates the figure was a petite woman. The hair is wavy in the front and pulled into a ponytail at the back. I feel there were serval focal points with in the piece after reexamine the figure the three times. Each time something else stood out shifting my focus from the original focal point. There are many repeats of all the lines with in the figure. The artist only has half of the figure's feet and arms expose which displays start and stopping points for the gown. I feel the use of the white marble may display the cold hardness of the figures heart. The smooth texture of the marble gives a life like feel of the figure. The chair has legs of an animal

At first, I only gave this painting a glance because I thought the colors looked very boring to me. It was not pleasing to the eye because it was your average

The piece of art that I’ve decided to do this research paper on is a ceremonial Inca Vase with Jaguar Handles. It is a popular vase within Inca ceramics. The Inca were a group of indigenous people who were possibly the world’s largest empire located in modern day Peru. They used a variety of craftsmanship, the most popular being the polychrome technique which portrayed a number of animals, waves, birds, and felines (Hood, 2017). These images were carried on throughout the Chavin culture and geometric patterns were found in Nazca ceramics (Hood, 2017).

given to the Getty Museum as a gift Michael and Jane Wilson Collection. This artwork

The art piece that I chose to critique is the sculpture of a figure kneeling down and getting shocked. It is located on campus near the Morris University Center(muc). When I first saw this sculpture it caught my attention immediately, because of how gruesome the piece was. I feel like I don’t have a good understanding of what the sculpture represents, but it seems like it would raise plenty of controversy, due to its erotic features. It seems like the artist was venting his emotions when he created his idea. The sculpture is fairly large in size, which makes it noticeable, among the other art pieces on campus. The sculpture media consist of wood and concrete, and metal mostly. The individual is keeling down toward the west and is supported

The viewer will first notice the solid base shaped like a mother’s apron with two, apron-like tassels extending upward from each side. The base also is reminiscent of a large tree trunk and the texture gives the viewer the impression of a rough and heavy bark, just as a mother has a rough exterior while maintaining a soft interior when dealing with a child. Entangled in one, apron-like tassel, on the right side of the sculpture, the

As mentioned previously, the structure and design of this sculpture exposes the time and effort put into the creation. The color which is a very dull green reminds me of the Statue of Liberty, a famous work of art that we’ve talked a great deal on this semester. Originally, the Statue of Liberty was brown because of the amount of copper used to make it, but eventually transformed to a dullish green consequently through the processes of aging and weathering. I don’t

Untitled #57 from the series III Form and Void Full created in 2011 by Laura Letinsky found at the George Eastman Museum is an inject print displaying left half of the artwork with two and three dimensional objects while the right half filled with space with a grayish background. On the left side of the artwork, there are cups and plates with different depths of dimensions scattered in the center of the several papers they are on. There is also a three dimensional water splashing on top of a plate as if it was being poured into the plate from the top of the artwork. There are also three yellowish-red pears with a small wine glass close to them by the plate being poured by water. There are plates that are split in half with small pieces shattered around. This whole picture seems to be on a piece of paper where the edges of the paper is visible dividing Letinsky’s inject print into filled space on the left and blank space on the

Uniquely, it was quite disgusting just from the picture alone, but with the subjective response to go along with it made it almost unbearable to read. It told of how she came to get those false teeth, from an accident when she was younger, wherein they looked for her teeth in a unruly manner but couldn’t find them so they ended up fitting her for false ones. Coupled with those details, she even says she will throw in a brown container with the winner of the auction, to add to the already “Lightly Used” so to speak false teeth. Granted, the teeth are lightly used is a turn off for me alone, anything that has been inside someone else’s internal dwellings shouldn’t even be put up for sale. With this in mind, it is unsafe, unsanitary, and appalling to most ordinary people in the civilized world. Moreover, it made me not want to buy them seeing the condition, place, and status they are currently in. Although, in the end it is always up to the individual others may find these false teeth unique as well as collectable and while people like me find them