| China is a country of ceramics, and pottery came into being about 10000 years ago in Neolithic times while the use of pottery serves as a significant civilization in primitive society during Neolithic times. Pottery is the product of our ancestors’ finding, knowing and practice in the nature-- our ancestors kneaded artifacts combining clay and water. Through the toughening of fire, the clay was hard and insusceptible and it was the antecedent of pottery, opening new chapter of human civilization. Chinese ceramics as one of Chinese ancient traditional cultures has produced various genres and characteristics through different times and different local cultures and social backgrounds in different regions, leaving descendants precious treasures of techniques of manufacturing, shape and decoration. Ceramics art uses unique ceramics material to form the unique artistic language and it’s characterized by its distinct form, artistic glamour and essence of technological culture. During primitive times, practicality was the main focus of pottery, and with the development of culture and people’s demands of living, practicality and aesthetics became both features of pottery gradually, taking advantage of the combination of function and form, technique and technology in the making of ceramic art. And it displays people’s precious wisdom of creation and practice.Influenced by the development of modern civilization and modernism thinking, modern pottery stands out in modern art with its uniqueness. Modern pottery is equipped with distinctive material and artistic language and creators’ emotions are fused to present inimitable pottery forms to the audience via various shape forms and decoration techniques. And the audience may be amazed by the unexpected pottery forms. China has a long history of ancient ceramics, and the traditional ceramic concepts are embedded in our minds. While Chinese modern ceramic art has sprung from and developed traditional ceramics and influenced by modern people’s concepts and aesthetics, it differs from the ancient pottery in the form and decoration, reserving ancient techniques of manufacturing. We modern people refer to modern ceramics as different from ancient ceramics, modern ceramic works transcend sense of appreciation in the past, and it is mainly a kind of artistic expression and spiritual representation. Modern ceramics works leave the audience unlimited imagination with the handle of trails, making modern ceramics artistic glamour and form rather peculiar by fusing concepts to show explosive creation desire and allocating ceramist’s emotions.This topic is fundamentally based on shape, form and decoration of modern ceramics and it analyzes concrete and abstract forms of modern ceramics. The concrete forms are realistic in the majority with the features of concreteness and vividness. And abstract forms are conceptual forms to a great extent which are created out of ceramists’ own interests and concepts. Change has become a very interesting topic in modern ceramics as modern ceramics present itself with various forms to the audience which brings them happiness. Ceramists have not only made bold innovations in forms but also construed the glaze and texture decoration, technique of manufacturing and material’s comprehensive usage. This topic introduces modern ceramics through their forms and construes ceramists’ creation emotions from modern ceramist works. And only the display of work pieces can demonstrate how modern ceramist works can present ceramists’ emotions and thinking thoroughly. Thus, this paper analyzes modern ceramist’s spatial relationship from the aspects of modern ceramist’s unique techniques of manufactures and its forms. |
