Ceramic Repsonse 2

Ceramics are stuck between the realm s of fine art and craft. It can be functional, but also decorative. I have never studied a famous potter in any of my art history classes. When studying ceramics we usually talk about pieces in a more historical sense. The artist is usually unknown, so we don’t spend time talking about the person who created the piece, trying to figure out their life, why the created a form in a certain shape or used a certain glaze the way we analyze paintings. In art history, the painter is just as important as their paintings. We analyze the artists, study the period they were from, their lifestyle and events that happened to better understand their work. Whereas with ceramics we use the artist’s piece to have a better sense of how the society lived. I had never considered the fact that ceramics generally do not go through art movements the way paintings do. Potters are sometimes influenced by certain movements, but not to the extent of other art forms. Ceramics generally focus much more on aesthetics than trying to push the limits of art.