Margaret Beaufort Pottery Case Study

Making pottery on a wheel is a form of art that takes time and skill. Each piece is unique, but each one is made using the same process. Learning the basic process of spinning pottery will begin you on the path to making a successful and beautiful bowl or vase. It is so easy to become addicted to this type of artwork, especially if you are a perfectionist like me, because of the symmetry and small details involved. Ceramics takes time to make, however the outcome is definitely worth it.

This jar have yei’ii design and is at 8 ¾ tall and 8” wide at the handle. This is one of the Faye Tso’s pottery that have won the Second Prize in 1993 during the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Artiests Exhibition. This pieces and with other large pieces of pottery like the vase with yei’iis and human figure and the water jar with horned toads. These clay sculpture were made by Myra Tso, Faye’s daughter and it was to honor her grandfather, who sang and prayed for her. The design of horned toads on the pottery are very special because the toads was use in a ritual for praying. All ritual and ceremonies are essential parts of the Navajo way as well as sand painting art that was inspired by those that created ceremony. The dust from gold, diamonds,

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.”

Margaret Cavendish was born in the year 1623 and left this world in 1673 as a young, successful writer, had a part in the discovery of scientific revolution, considered as a natural philosopher, and an advocate for women’s rights, believing they should receive education and also be considered as a scientist. She was the youngest of a large family and was born in England to the parents of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas. Margaret Lucas had class in the way she presented herself. Margaret was a shy, but a vibrant, outgoing young woman who was not afraid to speak of what she felt or thought, along with the peculiar attire she had chosen. Margaret being part of a wealthy family who was not really known, became close to the Queen Henrietta Maria in fact was her mad-of- honor. Shortly after the King Charles 1 was banished and the royal family was overpowered, she moved to France with the Queen in the year 1644. It was the year 1645 while living in France when she met a man named William Cavendish, it was then too when she married him. Shortly after their marriage, they moved from France to Antwerp, here is where she got the privilege to meet and be part of a group that her husband was a component of, called “Newcastle Circle”.

No other culture has had such an important influence on western art as that which flourished in Ancient Greece. (Herwig, 1988) Kate O’Halloran agrees that “a lot of what we know about everyday life in Ancient Greece comes from Greek Pottery”. (O’Halloran, 1988) Greek Pottery, particularly in terms of decoration, evolved over the centuries and was categorized into four broad groups; however these styles did not pass abruptly from one to another and in some cases ran side by side for decades. (Cartwright, 2013) These changes in pottery over time were impacted by the political , economic, social changes and cultural developments of ancient Greece.

Over centuries mankind has left artifacts, which continue to be discovered. There are two main types of Greek pottery that have been found: black figure pottery and red figure pottery. Both red figure pottery and black figure pottery show humans and animals, mythology, beliefs and sports. Carvings of their heroes and everyday life are shown. They are made differently. First black figure pottery will be described and then red.

Pottery is very famous in Ancient Greece and one of the main reasons are because they mainly use it for storage containers, cookware and dishes were as necessary for the Ancient Greeks as they are for us these days. Back then and still possibly now glass and metal are very expensive in Ancient Greece that’s why clay is so popular and it is a very handy product.

While visiting the Mint museum there was one partial piece that caught my eye. There was a glass display with three ceramics in it and they were all so beautiful. One of the ceramics was a vase. The vase was from Pisgah Forest Pottery, simply titled Vase, and was created by Walter B. Stephen. This vase was about 14 or 15 inches tall and 7 inches wide and was made in circa 1945. The art on the vase was more realistic than abstract or Non- objective and was made with stoneware clay with a crystalline glaze and had multiple layers of porcelain.

Mosaic is the fine art of crafting photos, illustrations, or patterns by forming together little colored fragments of hard material – tesserae – such as stone, tile, or glass. The first known samples of mosaics were found in Mesopotamia during the third millennium BCE. Opus tessellatum – uniform sized tesserae – is a frequently mosaic technique used in the fabrication of Hellenistic, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine art. This technique usually made the decorative borders around central figural sections – emblemata – executed in opus vermiculatum, a mosaic method using finer tesserae ("opus tessellatum").

Ancient Roman pottery revolutionized household pots and pans developing an arrange of table ware. The Roman art began with Etruscan-style pottery, all black, molded decorations on ceramic pieces, unlike Greek pieces which was painted on. Pottery was manufactured near where the demand for the product was for easy access. For example, areas in Southern Italy typical used black slip with a red fabric over. For identification of trade, certain inscriptions and symbols were stamped into the pieces. The Romans commonly used what is known as Black Glaze pottery. Other techniques of ceramic ware were known as Thin Walled and Lead-Glazed ware. Mass production of the ceramic pieces using plaster molds became an extremely efficient and cheap way to

During this time she signed up to be a maid to King Charles I’s wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, which she was accepted to be. Margaret followed the queen to Paris during her exile and it was there that she met her husband, William Cavendish. Her husband, Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a man with connections to the other great minds of the time, which allowed her to know them. He was very supportive of her dreams of being a published writer and helped her in any way he could. Her marriage also made her Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Margaret went on to write philosophical works about reasoning and natural inquiry and other scientific thoughts and ideas. She was different than other women thinkers of her time because she did not write about religion. She is important because her works provide fodder for other philosophers of her time and after, to think about and to give their opinion about. Her works provide material on different philosophies that are still around today and she explains these philosophies and why they are

Readability is a useful tool used in various circumstances to estimate the difficulty level of a written material for the targeted readers. Most of the common readability calculations will include things such as the lexical density, length of a sentence/word, and the number of syllabus. Even though readability tool is successful in giving a guideline to people such as teachers, librarians, editors, and writers, it still has numerous disadvantages. Since readability tool only calculates the surface of a text, it fails to reflect the interactive nature between the readers and the authors as well as ignoring the knowledge, interest and motivation of the readers. By analysing and comparing two texts: ‘The making of Americans’ (1925) by Gertrude Stein, and ‘Ceramic Science for the Potter’ (1972) by W.G.

This vessel is a typical example of Geometric style pottery. It has many simple geometric patterns repeated on the surface. Except simple pattterns, it also has some animal figures painted on the main body. The color of this vessil is simple. Comparing to the Krater from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, many similarities can be noticed since they both are painted in Geometric style. They bothe have simple patterns such as ziazag, staight lines, triangles, and so on. These motifs forms many horizontal bands to decorate the vessil. The color that these two vessils used are similiar and simple.

So for my second post I thought I would share my feelings on Pottery Barn. I recently went into Pottery Barn to find a gift for one of our friends who just bought her first home. I guess the reason why I went into there initially was because, I know it has a classy reputation for home furnishings. As I walked around there I noticed that there are very few people shopping if any and most of the price tags make you think “seriously, for this thing”? I quickly found out that I wouldn’t be purchasing her gift in there. Of course, Pottery Barn does have another effect on me which would fit in the “self- esteem/needs” of the hierarchy. With some of the bedroom or table layouts they have set up, you feel that you would love that look in your own

Angel Pottery LLC (herein after referred to as Angel Pottery) is an organization that produces happiness and manufactures ceramics. It is physically located in western Massachusetts and consists of one potter’s wheel, a kiln, 25 lbs. bags of clay, pottery tools and accessories and is owned by its principle, David DeAngelis. The major channels of communication between the principle and Angel Pottery’s customers are two websites: AngelPottery.com and EastLongmeadowRealty.com. Angelpottery.com serves as a showcase for products and Eastlongmeadowrealty.com functions as a pricing mechanism defining what the market will bear. Angelpottery.com has been a channel of marketing for more than 11 years with a creation date of August 8,