Ceramics Test 1

What did the Arts and Crafts Movement believe was wrong with the Industrial Revolution when it came to art and design?

Industrialization degraded the work process and destroyed the environment; they wanted to get back to people being responsible for their oen work

What did the Arts and Crafts movement proponents believe was the solution to increasing industrialized art and design processes?

they reasoned that if objects were again designed by the craftsperson and made by hand, joy would be restored

List 3 reasons why proponents of the arts and crafts movement would have hated this piece by Wedgewood

- complex construction
- it was factory-produced
- nature isn't the subject

Which pottery company was ceramic historian Edwin Atlee barber talking about when he wrote "________ was first in this country

Rookwood

Bonus answer:

Maria Longworth Nichols

What college created a ceramic program to employ women who had trained and earned degrees in its art department?

Newcomb College; This was also the first school in the united states that granted degrees to women

What pottery school produced wares that were distinctly southern in terms of surface design including a soft hazy palette of colors and subjects such as magnolias, like oaks, hanging moss, and cypress trees

newcomb college

This potter used photography to his advantage inventing a zany self image to market himself to the wider public in the early 1900s

George Ore

How is George Ore's work different from others producing pottery in the early 1900s?

the material often begins to disintegrate, rip, tear waver, nonfunctional, not created to make a perfect form, interested in pushing the materials to their limits

What us state was most responsible for driving the surge of ceramic education programs across the US in early 1900s?

Ohio

At what US university was the first ceramic engineering programs developed in 1984

Ohio State University

This Ohioian invented pyrometric cones, essentially kiln thermometers, an industry standard still used today

Edward Ortiz

The Rutgers University ceramics Program founder is known for early and extensive research on ceramic glaze formulation

Cullen W.

Glen lukens founded this University ceramics program in 1933. One of the west's earliest and most influential

SOCAL

this school's ceramics program has no classes and no grades it was founded on the principles of the arts and crafts movement.

Cranbrook

This artist's work was initially motivated by Picasso's ceramics who is she?

Andrea Gill

Im an Alfred University professor. My work is hand-built and I am known for creating complex teapots and ewers.

John Gill

I am known for creating the Scarab Vase

Adelaide Alsop Robineu

I designed the alfred university ceramics program to remain an important school to study how to make pottery during an era when many schools were moving towards sculptural and appearance approaches

Val Cushion

Name the first school in the century to offer the terminal MFA degree in visual art

University of Iowa

List two things Majia Grotel was known for regarding her artwork

1. developed glazes for bricks
2. pioneer of surface development

What did the nazis call art work that did not fit the artistic worldview of family, home, and church

Degenerate art

I was falsely accused of participating in an assassination plot against joseph stalin and spent 16 months in prison

Eva Zesiel

Describe Gertrude and Otto's contributions to ceramics on the west coast. List separately

Otto: searched for a California native clay and succeeded. Influential as a glaze chemist.

Gertrude: her flywheel potters wheel rekindled the interest in thrown pots, this tech was integrated and used wisely

What is the name of the organization Katherine Choy founded in 1957

The Clay Arts Center

List 3 design innovations the Bauhaus was known for

1.) radically simplified forms,
2.) rationality and functionality,
3.) The absence of ornamentation

Who was in charge of Pond Farm?

Marguerite Wioldenhain

Why was pond farm artist residency program important to the development of ceramics?

first program in the US and served as a model for programs that came after

Name the art movement beatrice wood was involved in

Dada Movement

The glazes I use create an almost metallic-like surface on my pottery. Name the glaze and artist

Beatrice Wood; Luster

Eva Zeisel was a ceramic design who specialized in designing pieces that were mass-produced. What was she best known for?

An all-white dinner set

What was Katherine Choys most notable contribution to the ceramics field?

She began to create wheel thrown pottery that was highly altered

List 2 greatest impacts sister mary Trinitas Morin had on the development of ceramics in Montana

1.) Developed first ceramics art program in an educational setting
2.) developed kiln design

What is the GI Bill of Rights

A bill that provided veterans with grants to attend college after returning from service

What 2 outside forces helped developed MFA programs in the US?

1.) influx of service members making use of the GI Bill
2.) the ceramic programs themselves on military bases

Known primarily as a painter, this artist is responsible for some of the most prolific ceramic and stone mosaic work

Millard Sheeths

After working with Gertrude Natzler, i was able to bring a version of her potters wheel to scripps college

William Manker

I am best known for innovated work with glazes, and challenging the US pottery industry's traditions of design, function, and decoration in the 1930

Glen Lukens