Artists have a global awareness of art making and in this unit we will definitely utilize that artistic behavior!
Here are some things to ponder during this unit...
- How can you utilize traditional slip decorations techniques with your coil vessel?
- How can the use of a template help to ensure a good symmetrical form?
- How can you utilize traditional slip decorations techniques with your coil vessel?
- How can the use of a template help to ensure a good symmetrical form?
Terracotta Warriors
The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from around the late third century BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits near by Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. Other terracotta non-military figures were also found in other pits and they include officials, acrobats, strongmen and musicians.
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Pueblo Pottery
Pueblo pottery, one of the most highly developed of the American Indian arts, still produced today in a manner almost identical to the method developed during the Classic Pueblo period about AD 1050–1300. During the five previous centuries when the Pueblo Indians became sedentary, they stopped using baskets for carrying and began to manufacture and use clay pots, which had been cumbersome, breakable, and generally unsuited to their former nomadic lifestyle.
Pueblo pots, made only by the women of the tribe, are constructed not on a potter’s wheel but by hand. Long “sausages” of clay are coiled upward around a flat base of clay until the pot reaches the desired height; when the coiling is completed, the interior and exterior of the pot are smoothed, and the round coils are pressed together to form a smooth wall of the pot. The pots are then coated with slip, a watery clay substance, polished, decorated, and fired. Designs include geometric patterns, usually angular, and floral, animal, and bird patterns. Colour schemes may be polychromatic, black on black, or black on cream. |
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African Ugly Jugs
A face jug is a jug pottery that depicts a face. There are examples in the Pottery of Ancient Greece, and that of Pre-Colombian America. Early European examples date from the 13th century, and the German stoneware Bartmann jug was a popular later medieval and Renaissance form. Later the British Toby jug was a popular form, that became mass-produced. Especially in America, a number of modern craft potters make pieces, mostly continuing the 19th-century African-American slave folk art tradition.