VeniceClayArtists 10th anniversary
“There is nothing abnormal about a chess player being abnormal. This is normal.” – Vladimir Nabokov
“The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough. This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it’s at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.” Garry Kasparov
Ceramic chess piece white queen
The genesis for the artistic collective of the Venice Clay Artists came about in 2007 during a summer session of a Venice Adult Ceramic Class in California. As Venice artist Joyce Lieberman relates — “Elaine Roarke, the class teacher, proposed we do 10 minute modelling sessions to create figurative works. Dana Eli presented me with a quick sketch in clay from my pose, which I refined and glazed in two shades of black glaze. She became known as the dark queen and when someone mentioned that ‘Raku Bob’ was at a chess night, this became the catalyst for the inspiratio to create an oversize chess set. Different clay artists that were present signed up to create individual pieces and it eventually came into fruition and was used for public chess demonstrations.” One of the original objectives of the website VeniceClayArtists was to monitor the progress of the chess set.
In 2010 I took on the mantle of resurrecting the expired website, acquiring it online purely for the name, thinking it was connected to Venice in Italy. Having lived in Santa Monica within walking distance of Venice Beach, I was equally pleased to discover the coincidence. So this is my 7th anniversary and nearly 1 billion hits later I am still entranced by the breadth and depth of the vast realm of art that is now accessible online and love the challenge of discovery, research and presentation.
Here is a random collection of eclectic images related to previous posts on VeniceClayArtists with links to them. This will be done over three installments.
‘Her Dream’ – Victoria Ivanova
Jon Anderson – polymer clay on the surface of a copper bowl
‘Geometric pottery styles’
Roger Capron public sculpture – Vallauris
‘Roger Capron – vivacious Vallauris ceramics’
Daniel Johnston – Pots On The Lawn
‘Pottery whimsical – take the plunge’
Flask with a Lid, Italy – Workshop of Guido Durantino
1540’s Urbino majolica
Raku portal vase – Ceramics-by Helen Rondell at Studiopottery.co
‘Pottery Raku Rapture’
Roger Capron castle courtyard sculpture – Vallauris
‘Roger Capron – vivacious Vallauris ceramics’
Aqua by Serax ceramic sets
‘Calming ceramic vessels – greens, white, black’
Shinobu Hashimoto chopstick ceramic rests with speckled iron
‘Deap Teal’, by elephant ceramics
Charles Catteau, Art Deco Vase – Design by Leon Lambillotte —1928—
‘Charles Catteau – Art Deco ceramics master’
Yves Boucard ceramic winged bench
Scott Jacobson Gallery
‘The Ceramic Furniture of Hun-Chung Lee’
Shinobu Hashimoto—iron black slender rectangle dish
‘Functional pottery – flora and cuisine’
Shinobu Hashimoto-rice bowl with umeboshi plum side dish
Functional pottery – flora and cuisine
Constructivist black and white teapot
‘3 Tears for Kerin’ vase – Jenny Orchard
‘Adorable clay mutations – Jenny Orchard’
Ernst Wahliss Art Nouveau female figure relief vase-(1836-1900)
Annie Peaker with her Hare and Tortoise sculpture
photo-Christine-Cox-@potfest
‘Bunnies of fortune’
4,200 yr old Silver cup with linear Elamite lady
Marvdasht, Pars Province
‘Intriguing artifacts of the ancients’
Muscle Beach, Venice, California, 1950’s
‘Venice Art Edge, USA’
Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain vase, Mei Ping form
‘Emperor Qianlong’s hidden Palace’
‘Personnage More’ – Joan Miro
Italian pottery hand painted vintage Desimone Vase/Decanter
Russell Akerman photo – Morecambe summer sunset, Lancashire
‘Russell Ackerman – Lancaster potter’
Josephine Baker postcard – Paris, 1931
‘Josephine Baker captivates the Jazz Age’
Peter Hermansson modernist glass art
‘Modernist glass arts – Sweden’
Dolorosa Sinaga – ‘Sufi Dancer’ foil sculpture
‘Figurative Dance sculptures and art’
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Carlos Luna – ‘Irregular Plate’ 1997
‘Dish, Charger, Plate’
René Buthaud craquelure vase
‘French ceramic excellence – Rene Buthaud, Jean Mayodon’
Mid Century porcelain horse with rider – Alvino Bagni
‘Modernist marvels from the Mid-Century’
Amphora Art Nouveau Ewer with gilt dragon handle
Czechoslovakia, early 20th century,
‘Bohemian Amphora splendour’
‘Agget’ by Egon Moller Nielsen
‘Fun sculptures of the playground’
Housing Crisis? What Housing Crisis! – Pottery Village B&B on Yeongheung Island, South Korea
American Museum of Ceramic Art – terracotta bull
‘AMOCA – 10 year anniversary’
Art Deco – ‘Afternoon Tea’ — Clarice Cliff Colourway
‘Clarice Cliff Art Deco: The André Aerne Collection’
Andy Nasisse — Pink Cookie Jar
Sherrie Gallery
‘Collecting Cookie and Biscuit Jars’
Penny Evans #383 Estaurine Ceramic Bowl
‘Indigenous Australian arts compilation’
Capital Gate Building, Abu Dhabi
‘Seeing Red’
Carlos Luna – ‘War Giro’
2005
Luigi Garoli for Ceramica Arcore, Italy
‘Contemporary art plates and platters’
Chinesisches Haus – Sanssouci Drottningholm, Sweden
Creekside Pottery
‘Ceramic vessels and lids‘
Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra, 1934
‘Art Deco in the movies’
Ela Cindor brooch — Pearls,-gold, newspaper
‘Beguiling ornamental brooches’
‘Enlightened One’ – Dhokra sculpture – Vichar Vichar
‘Dhokra tribal art’
Vogue Brazil – Julia Frauche – photographed by Zee Nunes
‘Street Cred visuals’
French Art Nouveau iridescent arabesque vase
Frida Kahlo, Mexico, 1944
Gabriel Argy Rousseau Egyptian Revival vase
‘Egyptian Revival Art’
‘Gotham in Olive’, Motawi Tileworks
‘Creative Ceramic Tile’
Giuseppe Maria Matricardi plate
Ascoli Piceno State Archaeological Museum
Repro Greek Minoan aquatic theme hand painted double spout pot
‘Minoan Pottery’
‘Helmut Schmidt II’ by Rainer Fetting
artnet
‘Contemporary sculptural busts’
Belgian Henry van de Velde Vase. 1903
Art Deco Illustration by Armand Vallee for La Vie Parisienne-1920’s
‘Perusing the poster arts’
‘Gradual Civilization’ Chia Heng Hsieh,- ceramic lusterware lidded vessel
Rajasthan Indian Female Dancing
‘Figurative dance sculptures and art’
Picasso Madoura large handled vase
‘Pablo Picasso Ceramics: The Madoura Collection’
Selma Burke (1900-1995), Harlem Renaissance sculptor at work in her studio
Lenci’s Ceramics — Carnival Venizi harlequin figurines
Jeanne Mammen at work in her studio. her painting in the background, Man With Beret
1946
Leonardi Rovereto — Flared conical vase
‘Les céramiques fauves’ — Maurice de Vlaminck
The Art of ‘ism’s
Lina Vikto
‘Gilded cosmic gyrations of Lina Viktor’
Liza Riddle
‘The Soluble Salt Ceramics of Mark Goudy and Liza Riddle’
Lorna Bailey – Beatles legend of 20th Century John Lennon charger
‘Sixties quest for the elusive Eden’
Mari Simmulson, designer for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden
‘It’s a potters world.’
Photo Vadim Stein
‘Sculptural Dance Figures’
Mayan skull hacha, or axe, carved from basalt stone. Mexico, circa 600—900 CE
Michael Thacker – ‘Inclusion’
Jin-Kim Myung, ‘Cloud Jar’
2009
Rahel Ungwanaka ‘Ankarta’ 2005
Queensland Art Gallery
‘Australian clayarts – wildlife fauna, flora, landscapes’
Royal Dux Art-deco ceramic figurine
‘Czech, Bohemia Clayarts’
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