Between The Spiritual And The Soil

Handicraft is the byproduct of social development, is a service to society, is a kind of compensation to our lives. With the development of society, the traditional handicraft is fading, replaced by "zero defect" products produced by mechanized production. Crowded by perfect products, people gradually tend to alienated from society, be offensive to machine, and respect for nature, so "manmade trace" are treasured by us again. Under this background, the paper describes the formulation of manmade beauty of modern life pottery, enumerates many artists’ produce method and concept and summarizes the aesthetic value and characteristic of the manmade beauty. The paper aims to make emotional beauty rational, then illustrate the pursue for manmade trace and manmade beauty recently, and highlights the importance of handicraft at the same time.