Contemporary Pottery in Ceramic Art

Contemporary ceramics in China started late, but Chinese contemporary ceramists have not been standing still. As contemporary art critic Pi Daojian puts it, contemporary Chinese ceramic art has become "a 'text' that contains rich content on the level of China's contemporary psychological structure and collective unconscious, and has become an index of the history of the Chinese mind at the end of the century." Expressing modern people's pursuit of ideals, contemplation of human nature, and realization of life, the articulation of this aesthetic value is confronted with the rich inner world of the artist as an individual being.

For ceramics in the form of billet, skilled ceramic workers in accordance with the design drawings or finished product production works in the technical level, may be able to achieve impeccable, but this type of work can not be regarded as a real work of art, the real art is the expression of the flow of human consciousness, as well as their own survival of the community's cognition.

Contemporary ceramic works in the shape of the creation of ceramic works in the shape of the purely practical function has been removed, turned to the heart of the confession. There are many modern potters who are fond of vessel pottery and use different means to express the charm of vessel pottery.

Western and Eastern contemporary avant-garde ceramics, although the cause is different, but the same way - abandon the fixed stylistic program, the pursuit of pure form without any functional requirements. Ceramics as a touchable art with an independent character.

Three Types

Contemporary ceramics can be broadly categorized into three types in terms of form.

The first type is vessel-shaped ceramic works. Using pottery as a medium, this type of work utilizes the unique texture of clay to metaphorically return to the basics and explore pure formal composition. But it is different from the traditional vessels focus on practicality, modern ceramics practical and beautiful function began to separate, people began to rethink the traditional ceramics adhering to the "beauty of symmetry", reshaping the ceramic art of a new subject.

With painting the pursuit of pure visual effect and sculpture of a variety of media of comprehensive experimentation is different, the physical characteristics of ceramics not only determines its form of beauty, but also determines the fundamental difference between it and other media. The formalism of ceramics is the pursuit of the possibility of formal expression under the qualities of ceramics. At the same time, the creation of pottery requires not only the spirit of creativity, but also the ability to discover accidental effects in the process of production. For example, Jin Wenwei and Bai Lei are relatively simple in their choice of materials, with the natural color of clay taking up the majority of the proportion, and use the rich variations in the texture and texture of clay to construct a new formal relationship. This formal language enriches the expressive power of pure form.

The second category is ceramic sculpture, focusing on the expression of self-concept.

Just as we want to find a new self every day, the artist can put this search for self into the art work. Ceramics as a means of self-expression, the artist pours a certain feeling or cognition into the works, sensitively grasps the state of existence of the self, and actually expresses the ****same experience of contemporary social life.

The third type is the combination of ceramic works, i.e. ceramics combined with other materials. This type is a critique of culture or a memorialization of history. The basic elements of ceramics, water, earth and fire, have the same vocabulary of globalization*** in terms of materials, but different forms and styles have relatively different but clear cultural relevance, and this situation also shows the discourse of China's contemporary ceramics in the context of the world's modern art, and it is a kind of breakthrough and leap.

The three types of contemporary ceramics, are not practical as the main function, more attention is paid to its art. Therefore, we can completely use the language of modern art theory to regulate them. Of course, the type does not represent the style or art school, it is only a comprehensive examination of modern ceramics in form, subject matter, content and theme. And if it is subdivided on this basis, the future is bound to be convinced by the artistic charm of contemporary ceramics.

Hunan liling "red official kiln" collection of three methods

Porcelain, a vein of magical breath from the soil, thousands of years.

Translated into CHINA, it is the Chinese people's international business card; title a place, it is the local community's regional image.

"Investment collection should be localized." At 10:00 a.m. on January 7, the provincial collection association vice president Yang Zong Gan liling porcelain collection home, more than 2,000 pieces of colorful underglaze porcelain, "red" is eternal!

Dignified and noble: "red official kiln" of spring, summer, autumn and winter

Liling porcelain has been known as the "red official kiln". It is evaluated as follows: spring: "two swallows fly together to find friends and happiness, peach blossoms bloom in March"; summer: "lotus out of the water dust is not stained, a pair of necks step on the microwave"; autumn: "a pair of sitting in love with the mulberry branches, the autumn color is as red as the February flowers! "; winter: "the spirit bird sends joy on the plum blossom, the pistil through the time to open in the snow".

65-year-old Yang Zong Gan came up with a 40-centimeter-high liling porcelain "brocade underglaze color four-square bottles" by four burns size, size, thickness, color should be the same, the process is quite difficult, so the ancient talk vase is a party of the top two rounds, square vase than round vase process is higher than the original, "only 4 pieces, an estimated price of 4.5 million yuan, the original is the same as the original. Only 4 pieces, a valuation of 40,000 to 80,000!"

Qing Guangxu 32 years, Hunan celebrity Xiong Xiling in Liling founded Hunan Porcelain Company, the first underglaze five-color porcelain and famous at home and abroad. After the founding of New China, the State Council approved the establishment of the Hunan Porcelain Industry Company, in 1958 the formation of Liling Art Porcelain Factory, renamed Qunli Porcelain Factory in 1965, specializing in the production of state porcelain, "red official kiln". Its products are mainly for the Military Museum, the National Cultural Palace, the Workers' Gymnasium production of the "three museums porcelain", "the Great Hall of the People with porcelain", "State Banquet Porcelain", "Chairman Mao's special porcelain". "Porcelain for Chairman Mao, Porcelain for Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and Porcelain for National Gifts. "Due to the then particularly strict requirements for the finished product, well-made, fewer, limited stock, the price in the collection market continues to rise, some up to a few thousand dollars, tens of thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, some fine products have become a lone product, the price of which is even more alarming, up to millions of dollars."

"Wang Zhen gift": the national gift porcelain collection grabbed