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The ClayArtist Gallery has 2 sections showing my work for sale - China Gallery and Resin Bronze Gallery
Articles/News What
makes art art? The Nude In Art 'Powerful forces are kept at bay, utilized, controlled, and put on display like sleeping wild cats viewed from a safari truck' In other words you could say that in displaying a bronze nude in our homes, we are making the following statement (possibly without either knowing it or admiting it):- "We are culturally aware whilst still being a bit daring – on the edge - but we demonstrate we have the ability to harness and control our base tendencies and send them off in a positive direction of contemplation, imagination and reflection". Powerful forces are kept at bay, utilized, controlled, and put on display like sleeping wild cats viewed from a safari truck. Kenneth Clark on the convention of the female nude in art says: “To my mind art exists in the realm of contemplation, and is bound by some sort of imaginative transposition. The moment art becomes an incentive to action it loses its true character”. Ceramics As An Art Form 'The
fascination of
ceramic art is that it meets right at the junction between fine art and
decorative
art'
James Hadley, Albert J Shluck, Walter Sedgley, Mary Eaton. Rummaging through a garage sale, if you ever find any kind of a ceramic design sculpted or painted by one of these names from the 19th and 20th Centuries, then hold onto it. It will be worth almost as much as a Ming vase. Yet these folk were just ordinary working class artisans, earning a crust; getting by. In 1896 James Hadley was fired by Royal Worcester, only to bounce back as an entrepreneur and eventually have Worcester buy his business back. The fascination of ceramic art is that it meets right at the junction between fine art and decorative art. Sometimes the difference between fine art and decorative art can be as subtle as the scale something is painted or sculpted, the method of making it or the purpose for which it is made. Often decorative art has a greater secondary retail value than fine art, making it a better proposition to both the collector and the artist. That would explain why we see Hadley's work displayed in rooms rather than hung on walls. Peter Holland 2007 |
