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Today we went to visit Mr. Lin Guan Hong, he collect a wide variety of pottery, each from a different work of skilled potters. Mr. Lin collects predominantly Peitou kiln, kiln and Datun Chinese ceramic works, is the earliest start collecting tea, because he attracted by pottery showing color after burned.
Today, we went to Taipei Health Care University to interview Mr. Que Wan-Tian. The most interesting is that we can DIY embryos after demonstration by another teacher Yang. With today's visit, I learned how to make pottery using hands step by step operating pull machine (Lulu) to make artwork, thus the accomplishment sense is full in my heart, really learned a lot ah!
Using Wednesday afternoon, the arts teachers in the detention room to learn how to glaze. Thanks Mrs. Wang for teaching glaze.
When we visited Yan teacher, teacher Yan just ready to take works out from electric kiln. Each of art works are teachers spent a lot of thought to complete. Mr. Yan said he most like to do rice urn, urn in the production of rice, plus a "full" character, full of symbolic urn full of rice. Yan teacher used to live here in Yangmingshan, so after finished his duty he settled in his hometown Yangmingshan . Mr. Yan will do the record of his day at the kiln, in the past few years, no exception, we so admirable his perseverance.
Once entering the studio, Mr. Yan demonstrate us how to burn pottery. First, the teacher put big and heavy urn into the kiln, and then sent tiles into the top and four sides around the kiln, and finally the close lid up and turn on the switch, start to burn the pottery. I think the teacher Yan inherited his father's experiences and learn new knowledge outside, with Yangmingshan good quality clay, will be able to create new opportunities for Datun kiln.
While I'm entering Mr. Lin's office, I saw many pottery works, stacked in the chair and stood enamel art magazines watercolor strike plate on the table, cluttered office seemed like of the artist. There are many clay dough into a fish shape of the finished product, because the fun of catching fish in his childhood let Lin miss endless , he can not forget the memories and reflected in his works. Today's visit, let me know that not only pottery in container shape only, in fact, can make all kinds of shape, let us appreciate a lot of works of art.
We entered the studio and saw a strange pottery works, such as: no hand dolls, fish and so on. There are so many unique artworks because of Lin's creative. Each has something new, it looks very especially. In addition, each of his work has its own story.
Mrs. Wang like practical ceramic (ceramic works can be used) as the main object of production. She learned from Taiwan's traditional pottery nutrients admired porcelain, Korean Yi Dynasty porcelain outside, but also a few favorite British, Japanese modern history of pottery everyone (as Lucie Rie, Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, etc.), for their simple style wash chain more than try to figure out. Her childhood love playing in the dirt teacher, a play, to play all day, so her mother scolded said: all day playing in the dirt mud, what will you do after how ? But after graduating from Tokai University, she has been playing with the minds grew up playing mud ─ clay. When making pottery, heart would calm down naturally, artworks will be naturally excellent.
Today we visit Mrs. Wang, she let us know the type of ceramics, and some we do not know the little knowledge, almost down to test us! Mrs. Wang said, the different preferences of each person, each person's good talent is different, and I was good at chess, my painting is not very good, people do not like some people better at something three-dimensional, and some people feel better some very bad pipes, pottery intention is to focus on what you are doing that works, as long as the heart, I believe that everything will be able to finish. Finally, she gave us her most unique works of firewood ~ teacup, she felt all the works of the most rustic style, thank Mrs. Wang gave us one a small cup, as a souvenir.
Today is our first clay class in this semester, Mrs. Chen taught us how to make a tea pot. As teacher demostrating I feel it is easy, but I feel it is a little difficult and there are many details need to know. Spout design is very special , rolled into the shape of the hill, little tricks to get a straw in the opposite direction, from small to large local areas, will be successful, but be careful with mud paste and I hope the teapot I made will be good to use.
In the second time to do hand made embryo, after one week our making feel become a little less, but still try to do, though has failed, but the teacher constantly encourages us, so we have confidence today, I finally pulled a success, teachers have to a little help, thanks Chang's guidance.
Teacher lives in the hillside so we have to climb lots stairs to get his house. He said mountains is the inspiration of his creation. This is the place I want to learn, not copying other people's ideas but use our creative inspiration to make our own styles.
Antique house, in front of a big table and we began to interview with Mr. Xu . Mr. Xu invited us to drink tea using his own tea set. In the teacher's collection, there is a cup his grandmother left, Taiwan mining products. Let us surprise, in fifty years when the Republic of China could make this exquisite cup, really amazing!
Because of schools' pottery classes, Mrs. Yang like to do pottery atmosphere, not so willing to play during the holidays, to stay in the classroom and enjoy doing pottery feeling. After that, she went to Tianmu pottery classroom, many teachers are her instructor, and later married, and was founded Mr pottery classroom together, for more than ten years. I think Mrs. Yang, love making pottery, willing to endure all kinds of hard to make a good, each piece of pottery as their own child-like to take care of all the things you like to do every day, this is my favorite feeling.
Today teachers took us to do the first time outdoors interview- Guizikeng Water Conservation Park, guide teaches us related information about Beitou ceramics, because Japanese like Guizikeng's clay, so the ceramics carried out Beitou
As arriving it began to rain, but we totally disregard the weather conditions and still continue to listen to the tour. Mrs. Zhu told us a lot of construction and pottery industry during the Japanese colonial period in Guizikeng, let us know here then wash earthen ponds and rivers renovation through history
The field visit Guizikeng let us understand the origin of the Guizikeng, Beitou has a such beautiful scenery. If you have free time, welcome to Guizikeng to see this beautiful scenery.
After visit Guizikeng ecological zone, I understand the importance of soil and water conservation. If we use good clay now Beitou maybe continue to produce good tiles.
There are lots of famous historical China pottery works in the Palace Museum. But today, we are going to enjoy the creative modern ceramics, young people and ensure everyone on clay beyond the stereotype. Artists' artworks can be said to be all-encompassing creative, novel is full of wonders, a collection of 24 modern Pottery Artist ingenuity. Some works big, some small; some rough, some delicate, each work is the brainchild of each artist. I thought only practical work clay pottery, traditional mascot (such as Lucky Cat) ...... and so on, but after seeing this exhibition, I was completely changed, did not think Taiwan's booming clay works is beyond me imagine. http://www.taiwanpottery.com/main/modules/MySpace/index.php?sn=taiwanpottery&pg=ZC640257
Today Mr. Chen taught us to do the tea tray and cups, this is interesting than last time. In order to hold water so tea tray's outside enclosed place must be a little higher, thus the water will not flow out, during Chen said: " clay has a certain thickness, you can not just go changing the thickness. I do think making pottery is a fun thing, next time I have to work harder and become as powerful as teacher.
The first thing when we make the tea tray, you use your fingers to tilt the bottom, where the bones have to do, high up in three places, (1) use some patterns enclosed (2) direct the long flattened twist fenced (3) twist to go around a one, three methods, I do is first, their own design patterns more creative. I feel that clay is very interesting, so I have to be more serious class.
Mr. Xu pottery teacher demonstrate us. He holding a looked very "huge" soil in hand so I could not help laughing. I thought, is he going to pull washbasin it? I did not expect this large piece of soil in land. Then teacher pulled out one by one after another of cups, bowls, vases, is indeed a teacher, actually have such a good craft.
Teacher Zhang took us to Beitou community college joined pottery class. First, the teacher took us to see the works of students, including two sculptures. One is made by a 80-year-old grandmother, she did, "Su Qi Jie" lifelike portraits, very powerful.
Xie Guo-qing, the chariman of Beitou Community College has been devoted himself to the position for seven years. Under his leadership, the college has made its great achievements on enrollment, especially on the curriculum of Pottery Art. Pottery Art is so popular that the college has tried her best to renew the related facilities. More electrical kilns have been installed, and more spacious exhibition hall has been established. Also the setting of studio has been updated. All the efforts they have done enhance the quality of teaching and learning.
Today we had third time of pottery classes in this semester, in order to make our tea ceremony richer, we made flower pots today, to be arranged in our tea seat on the table, it was designed a cute doll shape, big eyes, cute , as well as fish, elf, etc., are very strange
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Date :2015.10.01
2016 Li-Nong
Elementary School , Taipei , Taiwan - Pottery Pioneer
wwh@cc.lnes.tp.edu.tw