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The production method and process of pottery

The production methods and processes of pottery are as follows:

1, kneading clay: the excess air in the clay is squeezed out, so that the wet and dry are evenly distributed, which is the basis of pottery production. Common methods are divided into two kinds of chrysanthemum kneading and goat horn kneading.

2, pulling the blank: the clay material on the rotating turntable, with the hand method of flexion and stretching to pull the basic shape of the blank, such as vases, etc. This molding method is called pulling the blank molding method. This molding method is called billet molding method, professional, relatively high technical requirements.

3, drying: molded pottery needs to dry for 3-5 days.

4, trimming: after pulling the billet to dry in the shade, use tools to trim away excess mud and burrs, so that the surface of the object is smooth and neat, and the shape is consistent.

5, glaze: outline your favorite pattern on the blank, and glaze it with the assistance of a professional teacher, so that the work is bright and colorful.

6, firing: the last is to wait patiently, after more than 10 hours in the kiln, ultra-thousand degrees of high temperature firing.

Introduction of pottery:

Broadly speaking, it is an art form that combines traditional Chinese ancient culture with modern art. From the development of history can be seen, "ceramic art" is a comprehensive art, has experienced a complex and long cultural accumulation process. It and painting, sculpture, design, as well as other arts and crafts have an inseparable inheritance and comparative relationship.

In the mid to late 1980s, with the intervention of Western modern art, the Western concept of "contemporary ceramics" on Chinese ceramic art has had a wide and profound impact, the concept of "ceramics" has once become the ceramic art world of the new fashion. The concept of "ceramics" once became a new fashion in the ceramic art world.

It still embodies a kind of contradiction and collision between Eastern and Western cultures. Such as "what is pottery", "pottery and ceramic art of the relationship between how" and a series of seemingly non-problem of the basic questions, until now failed to achieve a unified understanding and standards

Ceramic art in China originated a long time ago, a variety of appearance, in the Chinese ceramic art has always been quite representative of world history, but also because of the inheritance of a long time, the technology is constantly updated, coupled with the change of dynasties;

Different nationalities and lifestyles affect the direction of the development of Chinese ceramics, if they are to be categorized, it is not a single condition can be fully covered, so some people to the age, use, glaze color, technique or origin to be categorized.