Pottery

High school is one of those times in life where most people have the best times of their lives, but for me I just wanted to get through it. Coming in freshman year I was done with the cattiness of the girls, the social pressures, and the monotony of school. Then I discovered the joy of ceramics! Ceramics was unlike any class I had taken in my entire life and had far reaching effects on my life. Ceramics kept me in high school by sparking my creativity and all of life’s possibilities. In high school

The most prominent and famous pottery made in Mexico is Talavera pottery. Talavera is a high-quality decorative earthenware pottery style that is recognized by its strong colors and detailed patterns creating traditional Mexican and more contemporary designs. The cultural trait of using bold mixtures of vivid colours in art and fabrics was also prevalent in the rich variety of colours used in traditional Mexican pottery decoration. Mexican pottery was made by coiling the clay into consecutive

Museum Tour Tiffany Nguyen Janna Eggebeen Wednesday, November 18, 2015 “Creators of Ceramics” Ceramics; from Porcelain, to Pottery Royal Ontario Museum A ceramic is defined as a solid, inorganic and non-metallic object, most commonly pottery, which is made by using heat to permanently harden clay or other similar materials. In this tour, you will learn about the similarities and differences between the ceramics in six different ancient worlds including Ancient Egypt and Nubia, Bronze

would do. She was from Poland, and still had her European accent intact. Her accent reminded me of my Grandmother Tesse, on my step mother’s side. She was also from poland. Anyways, the closest thing I had done to sculpture in my life was a few pottery items at my local Boys Club in Portland, Oregon. I had made a

‘red-figured Stamnos (The British Museum, n.d)’. Analysis of function, status and meaning of this Stamnos provide evidence of how it has changed over time. This is further achieved by examining the production, consumption and afterlife of ‘Attic pottery (Hughes et al., 2014, p.60)’. Production To begin, an intrinsic measure of soil and evaluation of taxonomic evidence identifies this Stamnos as between 450BC-440BC of Athenian provenance. Raw material excavated from a clay bed then transported

McKissick Museum I was engrossed by the American Folk Art, ceramic Face Jugs, also known as ugly or grotesque jugs. There are gaps in the history in regards to how the face jugs were made, what they were used for, and the meaning of the face vessel pottery. However it is believed that these vessels were original, useful, creative expressions of the African slave culture of the time created as early as the seventeenth century. Few artists of face jugs have been identified and their inspirations for producing

This paper focuses on two cultural artifacts and portray the differences between China Western Han dynasty (206 BC-9 AD) and Athen, Greece (ca. 50-540BC) vessels. To this end, this paper will provide insight into skilled vase techniques between two cultural regions. Since the beginning of time, art historians and archeologists have had the daunting task of endlessly solving a universal puzzle. Naturally, placing every misplaced artifact within a timeline is crucial in understanding past civilizations

The Museo Gregoriano Etrusco at the Vatican introduced free standing pottery on pedestals that could be seen from all angles. J.D Beazley’s Corpus vasorum antiquorum became the first fascicle to catalogue Greek vases in collections throughout the world in 1923. Two hundred fascicles later and there is now a clear, concise

Kyle Walker Intro to Anthropology Dr. Jean Marcus November 16, 2012 Cobb Museum Paper The Cobb Institute Museum at Mississippi State University displays items from the Old World and the New World. When I visited the museum I noticed a wide variety of artifacts. The Old world side contained pieces from many Old World countries, while the New World side featured a lot of pieces that are from local areas. Since there was such a vast number of artifacts at the Cobb Museum, I have decided to

focuses on during 5200–4500 B.C., when a farming society emerged in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, which shared a common culture and produced pottery that is among the finest ever made in the Near East. He describes, “these settlements share a unique material assemblage, especially characterized by the distinctive and elaborately decorated Halaf pottery, named after the site in Syria where it was first discovered” (p.182). The unique characteristics he describes allow the reader to engage into