Sculpture Studio: August 2022

Friday, August 26, 2022

Vincent Lendering, Student Work, Ceramic Sculpture I

Glazed Ceramic

Left, 8" diameter, 13" height

Right: 10" diameter, 11" height

Images below show how the idea for the two

featured sculptures (above) developed.

Above, experimental pieces.

Five pieces inspired by experimental pieces.

3" to 7" in height.

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Ceramics History

Clay tablet with cuneiform

2100 - 2000 BC

Source Link:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/4000-year-old-tablet-recording-workers-wages#:~:text=Developed%20in%20Ancient%20Mesopotamia%2C%20clay,they%20could%20survive%20for%20millennia.

This tablet preserves an account of wages paid to workers 4,000 years ago.

Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were used for over 3,000 years. Scribes used a reed stylus to impress characters in moist clay. The tablets were usually dried in the sun or sometimes fired in kilns.

Documents were often archived in libraries where they could survive for millennia.

Clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia provide an entirely new insight to early medical history.

cu·ne·i·form| kyo͞oˈnēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onəˌfôrm | adjectivedenoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets: a cuneiform inscription. • Anatomy denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals. • mainly Biology wedge-shaped: the eggs are cuneiform.

https://peterborougharchaeology.org/archaeology-skills-techniques/pottery-identification/

Funerary ensemble from a young girl’s grave.

Southern cemetery of Pydna (Alikes near Kitros), Pieria. 325–300 B.C.E.

This burial of a young girl contained 21 clay figurines, clay vessels, a gold coin of Philip II, and gold jewelry. Young children were often accompanied by large numbers of figurines that have been interpreted as farewell offerings or gifts that were made during the burial ceremony. Ensembles of clay figurines also often accompanied the burials of girls or young women, whose lives were cut short before they could attain marriageable age.

Source:

https://journals.openedition.org/acost/1039