Comparison between traditional ceramic art and modern ceramic art

With the development of history and culture, ceramic art has also made great progress. Ceramic art can be divided into traditional ceramic art and modern ceramic art, then, what is the connection and difference between traditional ceramic art and modern ceramic art? The following is the comparison between traditional pottery and modern pottery that I have compiled for you. I hope it will help you.

Introduction to traditional ceramic art

Generally speaking, it refers to ceramics created by a long-term traditional process. This kind of ceramics has a considerable relationship with the official demand, and it is also mainly for daily use. If classified by glaze color, it can be divided into underglaze color and underglaze color-blue and white (blue and white is an underglaze color, that is, after the body is dried, various patterns are drawn on the surface with blue pigments (such as cobalt oxide)). Then spray transparent glaze, and then you can burn the glaze. Because of the use of blue pigment under transparent glaze, it is named? Underglaze color? In this way, the firing temperature of the pigment can be similar to that of the transparent glaze. Wait a minute.

Overglaze color (developed in Ming Dynasty? Colorful? To the next level, the performance of ceramic color. After applying a layer of colored glaze (usually white) to the blank, the glaze is fired once, then various patterns are drawn with colored glaze powder, and then fired twice at low temperature. Usually, the background color of the first glaze firing is higher than that of the colored glaze, so it is called glaze color. Because the glaze needs to be fired more than twice, it is also called? Secondary combustion? . ), Kang Cai, etc. Experimentally, when firing many times, it is necessary to fire from the highest temperature to the lowest temperature to ensure accurate hair color.

Introduction to modern ceramic art

Modern ceramic art is an artistic form in which artists use ceramic materials as creative media to express modern people's ideals, personalities, emotions, hearts, consciousness and aesthetics in a personalized way. Modern ceramic art should not only explore the objective world, but also explore people's inner world and social consciousness. The creation of modern ceramic art in China is relatively late. From 65438 to 0985, a wave of western literature and art swept through Chinese mainland, which had a great influence on the artistic creation of the mainland at that time. Many international friends introduced the concept of modern ceramic art abroad. Form and information were introduced into the field of traditional ceramic art creation, which was still in a calm state. It turns out that ceramic materials can be expressed in this way, and ceramic language is so charming!

Modern ceramic art is generally divided into concept ceramic art, life ceramic art and environmental ceramic art.

The main content of conceptual pottery is to express artistic concepts. Artists can vividly express their thoughts, feelings, artistic ideas and feelings about life through the special form of pottery through their unique interpretation of the essence of pottery clay and their mastery of the production methods of pottery, which is what we usually call conceptual pottery or expressive pottery. Miss ceramic art, make full use of modern materials to create, and maximize the artistic space of modern ceramic art, such as organically combining glass, metal, wood and other industrial products with modern ceramic art to show the modeling language of ceramic art.

Life pottery is a modern pottery that can improve the taste of living environment, increase artistic interest and express personal aesthetic views, decorate people's living environment and improve the quality of life. Such as tableware, lamps, flowerpots and ceramic products for decorative display. Although these ceramics also belong to functional or practical ceramics, they are quite different from ordinary daily-use ceramics. They have distinct personality and some language features of modern ceramics in modeling, materials and manufacturing technology.

Environmental ceramic art is the product of the development of ceramic art to a certain stage. Mainly refers to the ceramic art set in squares, parks, green spaces, roads, scenic spots, residential areas, public buildings and other places in the urban planning area. As a kind of public art, environmental pottery not only embodies the principle of publicity of environmental art, but also has the characteristics of pottery itself. Environmental pottery is similar to outdoor sculpture in the traditional sense in form and content, and can be divided into abstract pottery and concrete pottery.

Traditional innovation-the use of traditional crafts, glaze color to express the modern spirit, bottles, cans and other containers or functional works. Modern ceramic art-the creation of expression modeling structure and concept, combined with other art forms, makes ceramic art not only stick to the combination of soil and glaze, but also incorporate more humanistic and spatial factors, making ceramic art more connotative.

Due to the progress of modern chemical raw material knowledge, the development of glaze firing technology, and the manufacture and invention of machines after industrialization, ceramic art has gradually separated, and practical ceramics and artistic ceramics have different development spaces, while over-glaze colors and under-glaze colors are not as absolute as before, so it is not a GAI method to insist on using any classification principle to standardize the types of ceramics.

Similarity between modern ceramic art and traditional ceramic art

First, it's manual.

The long-term vitality of ceramic art lies in handwork. This is also the reason why this ancient art is still enduring in the high-tech network age. Handwork is the foundation of anthropological ontology and the origin of all ceramic art creation. Handicraft, as a human activity, is a kind of physical evidence that can best maintain the authenticity of artworks. Compared with other art categories with increasingly blurred boundaries, pottery always has a clear boundary because of handwork, which ensures that the charm of handwork will be the basis of pottery, linking the pottery activities of different periods and different value orientations, whether in the past, present or future.

The second is the material, that is, clay and clay.

If handwork is the basis of ceramic art anthropology, then clay sculpture is the basis of natural ontology of ceramic art, it is the object of manual transformation and the material carrier of ceramic activities. Through mastering and using mud and transforming materials, people's thoughts, wisdom, imagination and creativity have become a physical entity. This material property of ceramic art is also an important reason why it has a long history as a cultural form.

The third is the firing process.

Firing is the unity of man and nature, and human noumenon and natural noumenon, spirit and matter are integrated in firing, which adds natural factors to ceramic art in nature and humanity. The contingency and unpredictability in shooting always make the shooting process full of expectation and lasting attraction. Factors other than natural and man-made mysticism contained in the firing process are the source of happiness and pain in ceramic art creation.

The difference between modern ceramic art and traditional ceramic art

Modern ceramic art is a pure art form derived from ceramic art, which has got rid of the bondage of practical function and decoration of traditional ceramic art, deviated from the conventional creative procedure, and has its own unique language function and aesthetic standard. Specific performance in:

First, in the selection of materials, modern ceramic art emphasizes and pays attention to texture and individuality, regardless of quality;

Secondly, modern ceramic art often deliberately uses the physical defects of anti-technology in the production process;

Thirdly, in terms of decorative techniques, modern ceramic art pursues the randomness and contingency of physical effects, maintaining and showing the traces of handwork;

Fourthly, in modeling technology, modern ceramic art does not fully emphasize the symmetry of law and order, and even intentionally causes incomplete deformation and empty morphological space.

It is these differences that make ceramists constantly change their production techniques, visualize hints, metaphors, symbols, associations and other techniques, focus on the spiritual value implied in their works and the language to express their personal experiences, break through the closed world and direct their feelings to all the spaces of modern culture.

Modern ceramic art plays the role of participant and spokesman in modern culture through the expansion and strengthening of some technical factors, which breaks through the original boundaries of traditional ceramic art and arouses people's thinking about ceramic art and its culture.