Ceramics 1

Week Fourteen

Overlapping

Techniques used to indicate depth of space

Helps viewers understand which objects are nearer and which objects are further away

Aesthetics

Philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty

Attempts to judge what is beautiful and what is not

Art

The conscience use of skill and creative imagination in the production of aesthetic objects

Artifact

Production of civilization

Man-made object

Culture

The ABC’s of civilization

A=arts, B=beliefs C=customs

Sumerian

A culture that existed 4000 years ago

Cuneiform Oldest known

language of the world

Sumerians used a sheet of leather hard clay and a pointed stick like we use paper and pencils

Mesopotamian

Ceramic art dating 4,000 years ago was the first depiction of people using chariots with wheels!

Creative Problem Solving: Don’t reinvent the wheel!!! Copy a Good Idea

Copyrights and patents are "intellectual property", but ideas and concepts belong to everybody. They are in the public domain - always have been.

Why reinvent the wheel?

Save time! The

Mesopotamian culture invented the wheel centuries ago

Percy Principle #7

Never borrow other artist's ideas Steal 'em!  

Ideas are free for the taking!

Percy Principles of Art and Composition

On Right: Escher 1955

On Left: Alfano 2007

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Round neckCurving lines in hair

Indian cultureBrass Buddha

Roman Man

Square shoulders Square lips Square Brow