ART 214-A Ceramics I
1-19
Read chap 1 chap 2 pg. 22-32
Saki Look @ instructions for paper due 1-28
1-24
Chap 1 pg.11
What is ceramics? Clay is formed and hardened into decorative or useful objects
What is visual art? Deriving an emotion or idea and creating artwork. To create something visual
using your emotions.
Things mad from clay
-toothpaste
-spark plugs
-space shuttle under belly
-toilets
Shoji Hamada – brought ceramics to USA “to work with clay is to be in touch with taproot of
life”
Taproot – first root of seed and all other roots branch off it, is the strongest root
Clay is not immediate
Greenware- any unfired clay…still wet
Clay – hydrated form of silica or flint
Silica is the pure form of sand glass
Alumina – clay body thickener
Clay bodies – mixture of different clays
Porcelain is its own clay body- it is not mixed with anything
Bisque – firing used to drive out air and water before glazing
Glaze – color added to work
