Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Interesting Things About Pottery

By Jordan Watts


Pottery is an art that many does not recognized. Many people always associate art into paintings, sculptures or beautiful buildings. Traditionally, pottery makes use of normal clay as the medium and the creation was solely done manually or by human hands. But new techniques have been introduced in modern pottery.

Artists need intellect and love to be able to express their arts, and pottery artists have all this qualifications that allow them to express their love in pottery through the creation of arts through pots making.

Art does not only mean perfect pot in terms of size and perfect color. Art means the pot itself expresses something meaningful from the potters' perspectives.

It is right to relate pottery is wrongly associated with common items found in the gardens like plant bases or in kitchen such as clay cooking pots but in reality there are more. Pottery encompasses several other artistic designs including sculptures made of clay, wall decors and many others.

There are three basic materials used in pottery namely; stoneware, a glassy ceramic; porcelain clay ceramic and earthenware, a common ceramic.

Pots made from stoneware are more expensive and stronger than plots made from earthenware because they need more time and higher temperature for the raw material to be ready for shaping.

Porcelain pots are strong but they are also very delicate due to the types of material used, it is made from very fine clay material. Porcelain is heated between 1,200 C 1,400 C.

Pottery is not an easy job, from the materials preparation alone you need to have enough knowledge to produce the right material for particular pots. To shape the different designs of pots, you need real talent to create a perfect pot. Hence pottery is not just a job, it is an art.




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