Modern Technologies Associated With Ceramics

Before I started to make the pots, I did some research about different types of pots. I looked through photos of variety types of ceramics, which gave me ideas and inspiration of what I want to create for my own pot. I also copied the vocabularies that we’ll use while working with clay such as coil and slab. After building a foundation towards ceramics, I started planning what I’m going to create and what my design’s going to be. I didn’t sketch out what I’m going to make, but I had a clear idea in my mind of what my pot’s going to be.

Jade Stones “nephrite” are a mineral composed of magnesium, iron, and silicate of calcium. Usually, they are formed through extreme heat and pressure known as metamorphism. Surprisingly, it can be found on every continent in the world, including countries like New Zealand, Brazil, China (Sinkiang), Canada, Zimbabwe, and the United State. It can be found in serpentine rock, by mining, alongside riverbanks, and seashores. Due to its composition these stones are shaped and polished before it is used in massage ("Nephrite Jade Gemstone Information", 2014).

All artists are influenced by the culture they are from. Our experiences and the environment in which we were raised shapes us, and thus the works we produce as artists. This essay will discuss, compare and contrast two artists from different cultures, and their ceramic artworks, with a focus on how their cultural background has influenced their art. The artists that will be discussed are Janet Fieldhouse, who is influenced by her Torres Strait Islander heritage and Aboriginal artist Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher.

My role as a teacher is to create stimulating classes giving the learners the opportunity to develop and achieve skills associated with ceramics practices. I start by firstly understanding the assesment criteria set out by the AS board,

Bazaar Ceramics They have tried advertising in top ceramics magazines with some initial success at a significant cost. This has now been deemed a very expensive way to advertise and the proposal to create a website to serve in its place, has risen directly from this.

After weeks of working I made a total of three pottery pieces, the one that I spent most time on is a clay pot that was made to look like an ancient greece piece of art. They used as grave markers and many other useful things. Back in ancient Greek pottery was divided into four different areas. These areas are for storage and transport vessels, mixing vessels, jugs and cups, vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics. Many believed that Greek pottery, unlike today's pottery, was only fired once, but that firing had three stages. When firing their art pieces the kiln was heated to around 920-950 °C. They technically decorated their pieces to tell a old story or to represent something, normally people in a darker shaded color. I chose this culture

Pottery is very beneficial and advantageous to archaeologists as it is a very common and widespread product that leads us to have a greater understanding about the everyday life of the area inhabitants. “Pottery is one of the most common artefacts in ancient sites. Once broken, unlike glass and metal, it cannot be recycled. This makes it very useful to archaeologists,” said Pont. Pont made the conclusion that the red slip pottery was used by the Pompeian’s as tableware with the main purpose of serving food and drink given its characteristically glossy surface. By dipping ceramics in liquid clay and later firing it in an oxygenating kiln is how this gloss is created (Kalnins, 2004) (see figure

The goal of this report was to bring awareness to the problems that Perfect Pottery has fallen victim to from the recent, drastic change of moving to the United States. This article is aimed at bringing ideas to the table that would solve many of the situations and difficulties that came with that recent transition.

Porcelain has a reputation, and gets treated as one of the most fragile and expensive materials money could buy. Anything that is made of porcelain is a real piece of art especially to whoever owns it. While reading an excerpt from the Seattle art museum online I found that the exact time and place of the creation of the first Chinese porcelain has not been firmly established. It is reported as early as 600 AD is when the creation of high fired ceramic wares was producing white ceramic material that was known as porcelain. Porcelain can take the credit for what was considered cross-cultural encounters for many centuries. They used porcelain as a vehicle for designs and ornamental motifs between Asia and Europe. Those little works of art have also influenced traditions in other countries that have been witness to the amazing artistic features of porcelain design. Having a very nice set of china myself, I now understand the reasoning behind protecting such valuable property. I would like to be able to see firsthand some of the masterpieces that may be roaming throughout the great country of China.

Porcelain is a very specific kind of ceramic produced in the extreme temperatures of a kiln. Porcelain, of course, originated in China, which is how China got its name. Early in the 16th century BC during the shang dynasty, the ancient prototypes of porcelain was

Pottery was a huge part of the ancient Greeks lives. The pots were very highly decorated usually with scenes depicting Greek gods as a way of worship to them. This paper will explore two examples of Greek pottery and explain their uses and what is seen on them and why.

The appearance of Beaker Bell pottery in Europe is one ceramic innovation which is still not fully understood today (Waddell 2010, 121) as their distribution is irregular stretching from Hungary to Ireland. Several Beaker Bell pottery types have been identified in Britain and Ireland; those of different sizes, ware type (ibid). Many of the pottery that has survived in Ireland are those which have been used for burial, although also used for drinking, storage and cooking (Gibson 2002, In: Waddell 2010, 121). Residue analysis showed the pottery was used for holding alcohol and drugs, but as the pots themselves would not hold liquids for long it was like a prehistoric drinking challenge (Guerra-Doce 2006, 248). Pottery sherds have been uncovered from a number of settlements in Ireland; Dublin, Limerick, Meath and Tyrone to name a few locations. It was only when wedge tombs were excavated in the 1930s that there was actual proof of Beaker Bell existence in Ireland and from that it was assumed the people were an important component of the Irish population at that time (Waddell 2010, 129) and they were also recognised as the people that introduced the understanding of metal working to Ireland. The “Beaker Folk” are all connected by their similar techniques and artefacts but their geographical location seems to be an influence in their day to day practices, for example the stark difference in Irish and British Beaker Bell funerary rituals (Waddell 2010, 130). It seems the one

Then it is on to glazing. To produce a particular look on a fired piece of clay, artists examine chemical properties of different glazes. To glaze a piece is to cover it with a thin layer of glass. It consists mainly of silicon dioxide, aluminum dioxide, and fluxes. The silicon dioxide is the main body of the glaze. The aluminum dioxide enhances the viscosity of the glaze. The fluxes, made of different oxides of alkali or alkaline earth metals, lower the melting point of the mixture. Since the main compounds in glazes are colorless, artists must look elsewhere to color the glazes (Says). Most glazes get their colors through oxides of the transition metals. The most common are iron oxide, copper oxide, and cobalt oxide (Breuer). Artists can also mix the metal oxides to get an entire spectrum of colors unique to their artwork. Just by changing the amount of one oxide in a glaze, artists can get an entirely different

According to Isaacs, pottery was introduced to Hermannsburg in the late-twentieth century by Victor Jaensch. Jaensch “advised on sourcing local clay, and built a small kiln” and his Arrernte assistants, Nashasson Ungwanaka and Joseph Rontji, “began the tradition of making sculptures from clay” which were painted and sold at craft shops (Isaacs 2000:50). To many western critics and commentators of the time, the works of the original Potters did not appear as ethnographic or distinctively Aboriginal, as it was not like any of the traditional Aboriginal art forms produced at the time. However, today, Hermannsburg pottery produced by the current generation of women is flourishing. The Hermannsburg Potters webpage discusses the unique process by which these iconic sculptured terracotta pots are made. From clay, coils are rolled out and then each coil is a layered and pinched together. As the layers build, the clay is hand sculpted into a desired form. Once the moulding process is complete, the surface is further smoothed and shaped. Once dry, the pots are decorated with a ceramic based material or slips with pigment. Then lastly, the pots are

One type of solid is crystalline solid. In a crystalline solid, the particles are in a repeating pattern. These patterns are known as crystal lattice structures. There are many types of lattice structures which include: cubic, hexagonal, triclinic, monoclinic, trigonal, orthorhombic, and tetragonal. An example of a crystalline solid is carbon. These solids have characteristics of geometrical shapes ("Properties of Matter").