Expressions
I have never had any experience with wheel throwing until this semester with Ms. Sanyour, and I am happy to say that I have come a long way from January when I started with her help. All of this said I am very proud of the work I present to you today. This is a collection of my personal three favorite bowls all inspired by Expressionist painters. Each of the wheel thrown bowls were under glazed and coated in a clear glaze to produce a shiny finish. The bowl on the left is named Stary Bowl and is inspired by the Van Gogh painting, Starry Night by Van Gogh. Whenever I see Van Gogh’s art I feel like I can understand and experience the painting even without knowing the deeper message, but I can just appreciate the precise brush strokes of each painting. This bowl has a moon in the middle of the inside because of the main focal point of the painting being the tower or the sun depending on how you see it. The bowl in the middle is named Scream and is inspired by Edvard Munch’s, The Scream. This piece was the first that I glazed and was very difficult because of the very unique color of the sky in The Scream. I mixed orange and white in many ways until I got this beautiful creamsicle orange, where you can still see brushstrokes of white, yellow, and red alongside the orange that I felt represented the art well. The lip of the bowl shows the black of the outside and the orange of the inside clashing, colliding to provide the viewer with the duality of the light, and darkness of The Scream where the orange and black meet. The final piece I present is named Bones of a Skeleton and is inspired by the Van Gogh painting, Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette. This final piece on the right was the last I made. This bowl really feels like a conclusion to my semester here in ceramics. The bones fading away from the bowl represents how smoking can put a clock or a countdown on your life as you slowly fade away from your own misdoings. The blue showing through the black represents the ugly always comes forward in life and even the smallest misstep can impact you forever in more ways than just your reputation or health. I have definitely enjoyed Ceramics and intend on extending my art into ceramics 2.