FINISHED Slab Box

I finically finished the box for my sisters birthday which was a month ago. Oops!! Well she has it now and loves it!!

FINISHED Teapot

My pop art teapot is finished. It turned out so well. I feel it represents Pop Art really well!!

FINISHED Lantern

I finally finished my lantern. It is super cute and chic. I made it for my mom.

Art History Research: Pop Art

Pop Art: 1950-1960s

Characteristics:

• focus on the mass materialistic, consumerist culture of 1960s
• mocking commercial printing and conformity
• Reaction to abstract expressionism

Artists of the Era

Andy Warhol:

Campbells Soup Cans

1962

Marilyn 

1967

Roy Lichtenstein:

Whaam!

1963

The Melody Haunts my Reverie

1965

Art History Research: Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism: 1945-1960

Characteristics:

• emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation 

• has an image of being rebellious, anarhic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic 

• implies expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind 

Artists of the Era

Wassily Kandinsky:

The White Dot

1923

Picture With an Archer

1909

Willem de Kooning:

Woman IV

1953

An Abstract Painting

1949

Art History Research: Cubism

Cubism: 1907-1914

Characteristics:

• Abstract form
• Geometric shapes
• Simple yet bold

Artists of the Era

Pablo Picasso:

Guernica

1937

The Old Guitarist

1903

Georges Braque:

Violin and Candlestick

1910

Little harbor in Normandy

1909

Paul Cezanne:

The Large Bathers
1905

Forrest
1904

Art history Research: Surrealism

Surrealism: 1920s-1940s

Characteristics:

• Emphasis on the mysterious, marvelous, mythological and irrational to make art ambiguous and strange
• Exploration of dream and unconsciousness as a valid form of reality
• A willingness to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence

Artists of the Era

Salvador Dali:

The Persistence of Memory

1931

Swans Reflecting Elephants

1937

Rene Magritte:

The Son of Man

1964

Time Transfixed

1938

Marc Chagall:

La Mariée

1950

White Crucifixion

1938

Art History Research: Fauvism

Fauvism: 1900-1920

Characteristics:

• Raw, pure colors
• Simplified forms
• Ordinary subject matter

Artists of the Era

Franz Marc:

The Tower of Blue Horses

1913

Fighting Forms

1914

Henri Matisse:

The Green Line (Portrait of Madame Matisse)

1905

Vase with Fruit

1901

Art History Research: Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism: 1880-1900

Characteristics:

• Exaggerated Impressionism
• Less detail than Impressionism
• A sense of style rather than fidelity

Artists of the Era

Vincent Van-Gogh:
The Starry Night
1889

Still Life: Vase with Sunflowers

1888

Art History Research: Impressionism

Impressionism: 1870s-1890s

Characteristics:

• Use of colored shadows
• Broken color and broken brushstrokes
• Use of Impasto/thick paint

Artists of the Era

Claude Monet:

Irises in Monet's Garden

1900

Water Lilies
1914-1926

Mary Cassatt:

Summertime 1894

1894

 Children Playing on the Beach
1884

Edgar Degas:

A Grecian Dance

1890

Dancers in Blue
1890

FINISHED Wheel Tea Bowls!!! :)

I finally got to glazing my tea bowls I made on the wheel. One is for my makeup brushes and the other is a little bowl for my puppy, it even says her name on it. The bigger one is very cute. I chose to use speckled glazes. For the little one for my puppy I used underglaze to draw her name. All the glazes I used are food safe and microwaveable. Overall this was a great success!!!

Ceramic Events of Last Week!!!

Soooooo, last week in Ceramics II we are finishing our projects of choice, mine is a slab box, and we began our new project which is creating a textured lantern with slabs. I have not started my lantern yet so i do not have any picture to post. :(

Project of Choice

My project of choice is a slab box. I'm making it for my sister's birthday on April 21st. I have finished one side so far.

FINISHED Hello Kitty Whistle

I finished the Hello Kitty whistle glaze and all!!!
I even used a new glitter glaze for her cherry red bow. i am a little disappointed that the glaze ran a little but overall the project was a great success and really fun to make.