How to appreciate a pottery work?

Appreciation of a pottery work, you can look at the following aspects:

1, technology and art

Ceramic production area is very concerned about technology, they believe that technology is equivalent to art. Through time precipitation, diligent practice will have the technology to improve. The same is true of art, because it is associated with human nature, creativity, aesthetics. These are to be grasped emotionally, it is not exactly 1+1=2. The relationship between technique and art is of course that art comes first and technique comes second, and that is what has to do with creation.

2. Material and expression

Pottery emphasizes the expression of the material, which is not exactly human expression, because we are constantly trying to understand the material. Clay has its own language and becomes pure when it becomes porcelain clay, and we can't impose requirements that they can't bear or that are contrary to the nature of clay. That is why modern art is more emotionally led by human beings to discover the desires that the material may express, and then guide the material to express them.

3. Aesthetics and Imagination

Many insights and memories from the past will form experiences, and when there are more experiences, the imagination will be weak. How can one be strong in experience and at the same time not solidify, but also have imagination and a sensitive mind, this is actually talking about the relationship between heavenly work and man-made. To lead a natural stone to a beautiful visual and imaginative space with special symbolism is the perfect combination of heavenly work and man-made.

4, law and freedom

All law comes from experience, experience accumulated to a certain stage becomes a kind of freedom, but it is not the freedom of life, but the freedom of habit. The freedom of life cannot be reproduced, so the freedom of life is the highest state of life and art.

Examples of pottery appreciation:

Liang Bing's work, "Traces of Ancient Times," exemplifies how to translate the exquisite art forms of antiquity into today's simple ceramic language. The work is expressed with only a few bold strokes, which can only be done with great confidence and based on a strong self-perception of one's own technique and performance.

His technique is not on the surface of this work, but rather comes from decades of previous experience, which has enabled him to understand the expressive power of the clay and control it well. The result is a very metallic firing, but one that embodies the most rustic aspects of the ceramic aesthetic - the strength and warmth of the clay.