Pottery – An Uncommon Kind Of Art
Pottery is an art that many does not recognized. Many people always associate art into paintings, sculptures or beautiful buildings. Traditionally, pottery makes use of normal clay as the medium and the creation was solely done manually or by human hands. But new techniques have been introduced in modern pottery.
A building that collapse before it is finished is not an art so is a distorted pot. But a pot with perfect dimensions and perfect balance is a work of an artist. Not all has this ability or skills to create such thing.
Anything can be considered art if it is able to express the artist’s feelings in his creations. Through his pots, pottery artist should be able to express what he want tell to the world through his designs and shaping.
It is right to relate pottery is wrongly associated with common items found in the gardens like plant bases or in kitchen such as clay cooking pots but in reality there are more. Pottery encompasses several other artistic designs including sculptures made of clay, wall decors and many others.
There are three basic materials used in pottery namely; stoneware, a glassy ceramic; porcelain clay ceramic and earthenware, a common ceramic.
The degree of temperature use to cook the different types of pottery affects the produced pots durability. Earthenware pots are less durable then stoneware pots because lower temperature is used to cook it.
Porcelain pots are strong but they are also very delicate due to the types of material used, it is made from very fine clay material. Porcelain is heated between 1,200 C 1,400 C.
To become a real potter, you need to be an artist as well because you need not just skills but talent and passion as well to do all the work of material preparation, to cooking, pots shaping and designing.
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