Artistic Characteristics of Modern Ceramics

Pottery has been optimized with the continuous development of human history. So, how much do you know about the formation and characteristics of modern pottery design? Here are the artistic characteristics of modern pottery that I have organized for you, I hope it can help you.

The concept and formation of modern ceramics

If the traditional sense of ceramics is the realism of classical beauty, then full of the sense of the times of modern ceramics is more abstractionism romantic form of beauty. Modern ceramics and traditional ceramics in the concept has been a big difference. Traditional ceramics modeling from life, full of rational design, the pursuit of simplicity and rigorous, practical and generous implicit beauty, and ultimately to the diversity of forms and glaze color decorative richness to complete the ceramics of different forms of appearance. Modern ceramics focuses on the expression of the natural emotional flow of people's spiritual trajectory, in a kind of completely release the inner emotional world and occasional emotional catharsis of thinking in the process of easy creation, in accordance with their own aesthetic visual consciousness gradually established modern ceramics design in pursuit of the beauty of the form. Feelings, the use of uncertain and changeable means of modern painting art processing, the production of the appropriate embodiment of the different materials itself, the language characteristics, and with the help of water, fire, soil, glaze color and other characteristics of the process of firing external conditions to complete the work of creative design. The natural beauty of reverence for simplicity is the inevitable trend of the development of modern ceramic design. Modern ceramics with anti-traditional, anti-technology rebellious spirit, there is a dare to be first in the design of the concept of thought, breaking the traditional design of uniform, balanced, induction, symmetry of the design model, more emphasis on ceramics ontology material language in the use of the new technology under the new technology, the ceramic modeling and decoration of the overall beauty of the contemporary people's aesthetic preferences combined, *** with the construction of the modern ceramics colorful ideological connotations and design The concept of modern ceramics is a rich and colorful idea and design.

The embodiment of humanistic features in modern pottery design

The development of pottery has a long history, and one era has an era of social background, cultural characteristics and value orientation. As the general environment of each era is different, so the ceramic works in the various stages of social development of the spirit of the times and cultural flavor reflected are not the same. Such as the primitive colored pottery simple and simple, Song Dynasty celadon thick atmosphere, Ming Dynasty blue and white elegant, Qing Dynasty pottery red and colorful, etc., modern ceramics creation thinking is exceptionally active, the expression of the diversity of forms and methods, reflecting the high degree of openness of the contemporary society with frequent exchanges with foreign countries. The straightforward and honest expression of the object, so that artists have a broader creative space to display their talents, perfecting the individual characteristics of modeling. Modern ceramic art rightly reflects the cultural characteristics, living customs and aesthetic concepts of contemporary people in its design. The uniqueness and creativity of conception, capturing the most popular fashion and cultural elements in the process of social development with the keenest eyes, and accurately combining the thoughts and feelings of the contemporary people and their perceptions of the world into the design of the form on their own initiative. The different concept between modern pottery and traditional pottery is that modern pottery is more and more abandoning the feature of functional utility, and gradually putting the ornamental beauty of modeling in the first place, so as to meet the demand of contemporary social aesthetics. Ceramics as the conception of innovation for the reproduction of artistic life, the charm of the work itself is embodied in the beauty of modeling, decorative beauty, material beauty, craftsmanship and many other factors, the artist's personal ideological character and cultivation into the shape of the beauty of the form is the key to the success of the work.

(1) The social attributes of pottery.

Pottery produced by the needs of life, life is rich and colorful because of pottery, ceramics and life are closely linked to the social attributes of ceramics is self-evident, to explore the humanistic spirit of modern ceramics, leaving the contemporary social life is equal to the source of water, it can be said that the development of modern society and the demand for life has achieved the rapid emergence of modern ceramics and maturity, so that more people involved in the play ceramics, pottery, pottery appreciation, love of pottery pottery production The atmosphere, pottery design from specialization to mass.

With the rapid development of contemporary economy, people's material standard of living has been greatly improved, people are not satisfied with the life mode of food and clothing, but happy to pursue a higher spiritual life. The rise of the tea ceremony, the prevalence of tea drinking style stimulates the production of ceramic tea set design, indoor and outdoor decoration using ceramic artwork as a decorative embellishment to beautify the space to reflect the ideological and cultural tastes. When a piece of ceramic art becomes a living thing, or practical or furnishings by people generally accepted, it at the same time has a social attribute. Pottery unknowingly adapted to this requirement of social life, the contemporary cultural spirit, artistic ideas, aesthetic mood quietly infiltrated into the modern ceramic design to improve the modern ceramic art and taste, thus making ceramic social attributes and art as one.

(2) The cultural attributes of pottery design.

A piece of pottery works from the conception of ideas to design and production, will go through a considerable stage of thought and modification, whether it is the accidental nature of the conception, the association of the pure or the feeling of thoughtfulness, can be a correct reflection of the artist's image of the design thinking, is the feeling and rationality of the mutual consent. Thinking will certainly unconsciously use the principles of the design concept has been formed, such as: sketching and imitation, generalization and tailoring, natural associations, poly-dispersed combination, size contrast, etc., to fully display the works or rough, or simple static, or flood, or ethereal, or heavy sense of beauty to. Design thinking itself with cultural characteristics, pottery from design to production and firing process is the accumulation and reflection of the artist's cultural thinking and will, after the completion of the work is more practical and aesthetic dual-functionality, modern cultural attributes more obvious. Therefore, in a sense, all levels of ceramic creative activities can be considered as part of cultural activities.

The participation of expert professors, literati scholars and other cultural people in the design of ceramics has increased the cultural plot. Whether it is Jingdezhen's blue and white porcelain or Yixing's purple sand pottery, quite ceramic vessel modeling with Chinese calligraphy, landscapes, birds, flowers, figures, animals and so on as decoration. With writing, painting, piling, carving, engraving and other techniques to express the content of the decorative theme, each period has produced a number of representative works with profound literary meaning and distinctive modeling style. The elegance and generosity of blue and white porcelain, the purity and simplicity of Yixing purple sand, these works emanate a strong Chinese cultural flavor, from which a glimpse of a state of existence of the times. The participation of some cultured people has enhanced the grade and value of pottery works, such as: Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, and Chen Hongshou, a literati of the Qing Dynasty (the word Mansheng), were all involved in the research and design of zisha pots, and as a jinshi painter and calligrapher, Chen Mansheng had a penchant for pots and was quite a researcher. Starting from generalizing the characteristics of natural plants and ancient vessels, he varied and designed many new models of pots. The decorations are simple but not clichéd, and the calligraphy and painting inscriptions on the pots are in harmony with the modeling. The famous? The famous Mansheng pots with eighteen styles are designed by Chen Mansheng and produced by Yang Mansheng. It was designed by Chen Mansheng, molded by the Yang siblings, and then inscribed by Chen Mansheng and his friends. Literati involved in making Zisha pots famous for a while, doubled in value, the works of famous artists hard to find, the role of cultural connotation is fully realized.

(3) The visualization of the creation of pottery.

The creation of pottery is the overall coordination of the eye, hand, brain design process, in which the eye is always the first to judge the beauty of the first viewer, only through the eyes of the brain to release the production of the command, the importance of visual perception in the design is evident.

Visual perception is a kind of intuitive thinking, it is based on the vivid visual impression of things, through the non-logical jumping thinking, directly grasp the essence of things,? See? is not a passive response of human beings to the pattern composed of light, it should be said that it is an active exploration process directed and illustrated by the brain, and has a holistic and automatic summarization function.

Visual perception to solve the proportion of size, material, texture, color matching, process treatment, means of expression, form of beauty and many other aspects of the problem, which is also inevitable in the creation of ceramics. In addition to the functional utility of modern pottery design, the pursuit of visual aesthetics has become very important. The success or failure of ceramic art must first be scrutinized by people's eyes as a whole, so that the formal aesthetics of the work itself impresses the audience and attracts people's interest in exploring the beauty and connotation of the work. Therefore, the visual choice is intuitively subjective.

The American philosopher of language, Mr. Mungundman, pointed out: ? The eye does not work as an automatic instrument alone, but as a part of a complex and variable organism, what the eye looks at and how it looks at it has to be controlled by need and interest. It selects, discards, discriminates, generalizes, analyzes, and constructs. Instead of reacting, it accepts and creates.? A perfect work of art necessarily includes: chic shapes, proper proportions, harmonious and durable colors, and skillful creative techniques, etc., which can leave a deep impression on the viewers and exude a lasting charm. Such as modern ceramic artist Lu Bin's ceramic works "fossil", "New Year", to life in the natural objects as the basis for creative inspiration, with a realistic approach to the rational treatment to express the modern ceramics with a variety of forms of beauty, and in the process of firing on the natural form to give more color, texture effects, causing visual impact, giving people more room for reverie.

The integration of pottery and other arts

Art is diversified, and pottery is only one of them. The existence of various forms of art explains the social demand and its own rationality, all the arts are interlinked, modern art every moment is affecting the development of modern ceramics, the art of a very wide range of horizons: painting, calligraphy, sculpture, decorative design, visual art, installation art and so on, each art has its own creative techniques and cultural characteristics, realistic or realistic, abstract or exaggerated and so on. But one thing is **** the same? That is the pursuit of formal beauty, modern ceramics from which all get inspiration and bring inspiration, modern ceramic artists are trying to explore their own forms of expression, drawing on modern art expression techniques, the embodiment of the works of personal appearance as a breakthrough point in the creation. For example, Luo Xiaoping's works "Guangchengzi" and "The Fool", although the performance is a traditional sculpture, but the exaggeration and decoration of the creation method and the delicacy of the production process make the whole character modeling give people an extraordinary and refreshing feeling, which is very artistic and contagious. At the same time, it can be seen that the author's profound modeling skills. Modern ceramics itself attaches great importance to the cultivation of modeling design function, only with a certain degree of painting and aesthetic ability, will create a novel form, rich in connotation, visual sense of beauty. Recently impressionism, cubism, structuralism and so on opened the door of modern design and became the ideological cornerstone of modern design. The design concepts of the masters to break the conventional modeling laws seem to bring vitality to modern ceramics, and designing with the opposite ideas, such as composition form, block form, pattern disassembling form and so on, will sometimes achieve unexpected results. Art masters Picasso, Matisse, Miro, etc. boldly adopt the language of ceramic material as the carrier of creation, creating a number of works of art that have gone down in history and are marvelous. They sublimated ceramic works to the level of art, creating a precedent for modern ceramics.

The art of communication and innovation, so that the shape of each characteristic and personality is the eternal pursuit of ceramic design. Only by emphasizing the element of individuality, giving shape to the characteristics, in order to gradually form a style and characteristics in practice. Ceramic art creation and design reflects the perfect unity of the combination of art and technology. The accumulation of the artist's personal character and cultural cultivation will help enrich the cultural elements of pottery creation. Only those who are good at observing social life, accepting calm and loneliness and down-to-earth work can find the real spirit of the times and elements of cultural personality in the creation of ceramics, and create more and more beautiful works to dedicate to human society.