Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Learning The Art Of Pottery

By Lourdes L. Moultrie


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.

Flower bases, cup, mugs etc. are just examples of products produced in pottery industries. These are just some of the commonly recognized potteries but there are many more of them. Some are new and some are even buried for hundreds of years.

There are three basic materials used in pottery namely; stoneware, a glassy ceramic; porcelain clay ceramic and earthenware, a common ceramic.

Pots made from stoneware are more expensive and stronger than plots made from earthenware because they need more time and higher temperature for the raw material to be ready for shaping.

Porcelain is still made of clay cooked at very high temperature but the clay used in porcelain is very fine making the pots made from it still breakable though strong.

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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