What is pottery art?

Pottery is short for ceramic art, which is both a material product and a spiritual product, an ancient art and a modern art.

The origin of ceramic art as early as 8000 years ago in the Neolithic era, the Chinese ancestors will already be making and using pottery, they mixed clay with water and wet molded into a certain shape, dry, with fire heated to a certain temperature burn, burned into a hard pottery. In the Shang Dynasty, due to the improvement of the pottery cellar and the use of new clay, as well as the invention of "glaze", so that people created than the pottery of fine texture, hard, not only the appearance of smooth, but also more practical porcelain.

Development of Chinese ceramics

In the long process of development of ceramics for nearly 10,000 years, Chinese ceramics in the history of achievement is brilliant, like a big river, the source of the continuous flow, long long and distant.

The development from pottery to porcelain from the Neolithic to the Shang and Zhou periods. Due to the improvement of the pottery kiln and the use of new clay, the primitive porcelain was fired in the Shang Dynasty. It laid the foundation for the development of porcelain in China. The art of pottery sculpture in the Qin and Han Dynasties wrote a glorious stroke in the history of Chinese ceramics development, both in its ideological and artistic aspects, have created a new realm. The major breakthrough of the Han Dynasty was the ability to burn mature celadon. The development of porcelain from primitive pottery is obtained under the conditions of craft reform of raw materials for making porcelain, progress of kiln structure, invention of glaze, etc. It is the result of the long-term production practice and the crystallization of the ingenuity of the ancient working people of China. During the period of Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, celadon porcelain was developed rapidly and became famous all over the world. Celadon has a unique artistic style, pale ancient elegance, texture like jade, color green, is the people of the time on the pursuit of ceramic art taste embodiment. In the molding method, in addition to the wheel system technology to improve, but also used the beat, print, skeleton, carving, pile and other means of expression. Thus can be made into a variety of new and interesting objects, at the same time, black porcelain and white porcelain also appeared one after another, chicken head pot is one of the more chic black glaze modeling, for the production of a variety of later painted porcelain laid the foundation for Chinese ceramics to open up a broad path of development.

Sui-Tang, the Five Dynasties of the growth of ceramics

In the Tang Dynasty ceramics industry, "the south of the blue and white" in the south is the Yue Kiln celadon in the north is the Xing Kiln of white porcelain, they were on behalf of the highest achievements of the porcelain industry at the time. However, Changsha tongguan kiln underglaze decoration process is also unique. The "Tang Three Colors" represents the artistic style of the Tang Dynasty. "Three colors" is a kind of copper, iron, cobalt, manganese and other minerals as a coloring agent, adding lead in the glaze as a flux, after about 800 degrees of temperature firing into a kind of low-temperature glaze pottery, the shape of the round and full, deep in the table out of soft and delicate, graceful and elegant, full-bodied and accurate, the form of a realistic and evocative. The molding process is superb, can be described as China's art treasures in the treasury.

Yuan dynasty Jingdezhen porcelain industry rapid progress

Yuan people in addition to the continuation of the Song dynasty's famous porcelains, the more significant achievement is the success of the blue and red porcelain glaze firing. The "blue and white" refers to the cobalt material in the porcelain blanks depicting the pattern shown by the quality. It is characterized by strong coloring, clear, elegant, with the traditional Chinese ink effect, "after Han Xin bottle". It is a masterpiece of this period.

The formation of the national porcelain center of the Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty social prosperity, workshop handicraft development. Jingdezhen porcelain industry to develop vigorously, rich porcelain raw materials, superior natural conditions, so that Jingdezhen in the center of the national porcelain industry, become the "porcelain capital". It can be said that blue and white porcelain was the mainstream of production. Yongle, Xuande period of blue and white, with its fine tire glaze, green color, known as the golden age of China's blue and white porcelain.

The pinnacle of ceramic craftsmanship in the Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty ceramic art originated from a wide range of places, such as Yixing, Shiwan, Dehua, but the center is still in Jingdezhen. In addition to Yuan, Ming since the glaze, high-temperature glaze and fighting colors and other varieties continue to develop, the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong three dynasties of porcelain production process and become a peak in the history of China's ceramic development.

China's modern ceramics

Chinese ceramic art has a rich tradition of excellence. Comprehensive absorption of the essence of the tradition, to create a new era of the face of the ceramic art, renewing the youth of the ancient porcelain country, is the contemporary ceramic artist is obliged to the responsibility. Modern ceramics more emphasis on the main consciousness of artistic creation, it is the use of clay and fire as a medium to express their own concepts and aesthetic interests of a purely spiritual and cultural activities, without any utilitarian. Its rise, is the second world war only began. As far as the creation of ceramics is concerned, the absorption of new concepts and the application of new materials not only enhances the diversity of ceramics, but also increases the possibility of ceramic expression. I believe that in the future, China's modern ceramic art creation space will be more broad and free.

Modern Chinese ceramics

The source of raw materials for ceramics

The clay used in the production of ceramics is generally divided into inner clay and porcelain clay. It is the product of weathering of certain minerals, such as: mica, quartz, feldspar and so on. Clay needs to have good plasticity, which you can only experience when you make it with your own hands. In addition, we have multi-colored clay here for you to use.