Category: Art and Design

Introduction Possibly for hundreds of thousands of years, pottery making using clay has been an artistic form of creativity among early and historical societies. Aside from making functional vessels and aesthetically appealing shapes, humans have time immemorial known that pottery is an excellent stress buster. Not long ago, people turned to the pottery making as…

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Introduction Minimalism as an artistic and design concept came into the world in mid of twentieth century as a reaction to the hardships of postmodernist stylistics. But indeed in architecture minimalism gives a priority to simplicity, clarity, and rationality of the lines and shapes. This aesthetic philosophy has caused a revolution in the development of…

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Introduction Taking a course in throwing on a pottery wheel is without a doubt one of the most satisfying ceramics that allows a person to form enticing and utilitarian products from lumps of amorphous masses of clay. However, it may be overpowering especially for new learners to know the required methods of centering the clay…

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Pottery is the process of making pottery and ceramic ware while clay is the raw material that is utilized for this purpose. The pottery clay is broadly categorized into major classes based on the type of clay material and the specific features of the clay. Different parts of clay and distinctive kinds of clay are…

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Clay is an extraordinary material with great applications that has been used in pottery and ceramics industry for thousands of years. That is what makes clay so special and pliable to be fashioned into useful and aesthetic items? Science has the answers to these questions, about the properties of clay. What is Clay? Clay is…

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You have finally made up your mind to be an artist – to translate your hobbies and inspiration into a business plan. Well done for getting to this point, it is the beginning of a very interesting journey. Like any business, selling your paintings is not an easy task and it involves strategizing, hard work,…

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