Research assignment for Bowl assignments 3 and 4

Assignment 3 and 4- The big La Bowl Ski

This first assignment will address some basic throwing skills like wedging, centering, and throwing bowls and trimming feet. This blog research assignment will focus on bowls and their feet within both contemporary and historical ceramics.

These links will lead you into your first influences in the shape and imagery encapsulated in the bowl form.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/65.6.7,8

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1972.118.185_13.1

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/91.1.226

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.118

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.118.74

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/63.159.4

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/41.49.2

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/meaden_lorna/lorna_meaden/meaden-06.jpg

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/shaw_andy/andy_shaw/bowls(2)(2).jpg

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/spangler_shawn/shawn_spangler/8(2)(2).jpg

http://accessceramics.org/results/object/140/

http://accessceramics.org/results/series_title/176/

http://accessceramics.org/image/5311/

http://accessceramics.org/image/2300/

http://accessceramics.org/results/artist/18/

and check out Paula Mathieu’s Odalisque Bowls

http://www.paulmathieu.ca/

Your job is to think about these bowls. Pick two or three historic bowls and two to three contemporary bowls that you really like and talk a little about them on the 265 blog. Post the images and your commentary for credit towards your research points.