It is pretty interesting to try and fit your own art into the historical scene. I had wondered a couple of times if ceramics artists felt pressured by the history of ceramics to stay within those traditions. For example our class is making vases. It is a form that has been made over and over again. Our project even involved research on the history of our vase. Some of the forms used are hundreds of years old. Do ceramic artist feel like it is harder to branch out and be avant garde? or like the reading says, is it really just not their thing. Then again there are artists like Beth Cavener Sticher who are not making traditional pot forms, but her art could be influenced by traditional ceramic animal figurines. She is making them quite different but they are animals, and ceramic figurines none the less. After thousands of years of pottery how can you make something truly unique? Perhaps this is a challenge that some ceramic artists look forward to and enjoy. If after so much time they succeed in doing something awesome it will mean that much more.
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