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5 South Korean Pottery Masters

Postby Masato » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:51 pm

Hey all

My wife is a potter, so sometimes she digs up cool vids about ceramics. This was one I really enjoyed.

True mastery, check it out:




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Postby Luigi » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:10 pm

It really makes you appreciate the ancient masters.
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Postby Masato » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:43 pm

^ yes. I was at a museum a few months ago, and it almost seems the farther back you go, the BETTER THE POTTERY GETS.

Old, old shit are often absolute marvels of work, kicking absolute ass over ANYTHING that people are making today. Like not even close. The attention to detail... entire paintings done on the ceramics, etc etc.

The idea that the farther you go back, the less technological or less smart humans were is a crock of shit. There were smart fuckin peeps back then, yo. MASTERS.

This always really trips me out. Who were these people? How did they live? How did they create such wonders/achieve such levels of mastery?
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Postby Luigi » Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:22 am

I read an excellent article a few years back about an ancient Athenian pottery workshop and it was able to conclude pretty much exactly how much work and how many pots each artist did per year, and how many artist there were and how much money they made. I think I can search thru some old files and find record of it.

Edit: Found it:

Sapirstein, Phillip. 2013. “Painters, Potters, and the Scale of the Attic Vase-Painting Industry”. AJA 117: 493-510.
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Postby Canuckster » Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:41 pm

fucking luigi man..
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Postby Masato » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:44 pm

We are blessed to have him here
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Postby Canuckster » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:18 pm

he truly is a unique character in all the people ive seen on the interwebs
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Postby Luigi » Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:43 pm

Haha, thanks guys. You guys are pretty cool yourselves.
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Postby SRBrant » Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:37 pm

A potter? Awesome!

But if you want REALLY awesome pottery, look up "Jomon" and "Haniwa." The Japanese are perhaps the oldest and greatest potters on Earth.
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Postby Luigi » Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:29 pm

SRBrant wrote:A potter? Awesome!

But if you want REALLY awesome pottery, look up "Jomon" and "Haniwa." The Japanese are perhaps the oldest and greatest potters on Earth.

They are the oldest. Pottery was invented in prehistoric Japan and permeated throughout the world long before the beginning of history.
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