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Spring 2002 |
Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy
Bold and beautiful, imaginative and creative clay objects
Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy is on view until September 2, 2002.
By Alidė Kohlhaas
Successful gardeners have to love not only flowers or the vegetables they grow, but they must love to muck in the soil in which a desired plant is to grow. They have to love the feel of the soil, when rubbing it between their fingers to ascertain its quality. A potter is not unlike a gardener. The tactile feeling of soil or clay has to give pleasure to either. While the gardener has as an ultimate aim the creation of a beautiful plant, rich in color, or a well-shaped utilitarian vegetable to delight the table, the potter has in mind either an object that will serve as a vessel for household use, or something just to be enjoyed for its beauty, its line, its decorative effect.
At the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art the current exhibit seems to invite the comparison between the gardener and the potter. The exhibit's 120 objects on display are like flowers in a garden, beautiful to look at, often delicate in shape, delightful in color and sometimes breathtaking in their conception of idea and execution. The artists chosen for this exhibit seem to proclaim with vivid imagination their love for the "soil", its tactile feeling between their fingers.
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