Art and Design

Is it possible to sort out design from art in the world of today?

 Design is described that the process of deciding how something will look, work, etc. by drawing plans, making models etc. in the dictionary. On the other hand, Art is described that  the use of the imagina<on to express ideas or feelings I am going to show 4 creators to think about this topic.

Francis Upritchard who is an artist and represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale. She makes furniture and ceramic bowls with sculpture. 

Rick Owens who is a designer made those chair and stools. His works are treated as design work, but his works are not functional and we cannot use it in daily life. When we compare these two creators, they have a common thing that they make furniture, and it seems that there is no different points about function. 

 



Japanese artist Murakami Takashi collaborated with Louis Vuitton at 2005. He mentioned those works were art and challenge to consider free making. He had a client that is Louis Vuitton in this project, it seems art work made by client’s needs. In addition, He often states that art is interior for rich men and artists need to make artwork considering it. 

 



Finally, Staring Ruby. I saw his work in frieze art fair. But his work ware also displayed in Design Miami. It means one creator’s works are sold in both design and art markets. 

The situation surrounding art and design has been changing. The key difference between this two categories is context. I refer to both art and design context, but I have to consider and analyse my context to choose my field. it is also important to understand own work. 

Getting making workshop

I made a huge size of folded paper crane in the getting making workshop.This works shop realized me the standard scale of objects is decided by comparing with others. I have to consider whole scale to consider about miniature. I am going to change my research theme from 'miniature' to 'scale of craft'. It will make my project deeper.

Flowing glaze

The bigger ceramic become, the larger it has limits by gravity. Limitation of miniature pottery is lesser than bigger pottery. In my research, I am going to explore original materiality by using this advantage.

Control of melting and flowing glazes is difficult, especially, it is impossible to control flowing of glazes in big work perfectly. 

Glazing flowing glazes is very high risk for big sculpture that is taken long time. It might flow too much or too less. But in miniature pottery, I can control it more freely.

I would like to devise way of glazing and firing by take advantage of small size.

Wilhelm Kage

Ishiguro Munemaro

 Kato Tubusa

 Rose Cabat

Context - TORTUS COPENHAGEN

I found TORTUS COPENHAGEN that is a Danish pottery studio in Tent London. I thought that their works have British pottery contexts (Lucie Rie, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott). They made glazes that were similar to Rie and Pigott, however, they added original elements (shapes of edges, space that does not have glaze). I think their arrangement was slight, but those slight changes have significant meaning in the field of ceramic. A little modification changes impression of ceramic works considerably, and we can feel intention of artists.   

  

TORTUS COPENHAGEN 

TORTUS COPENHAGEN 

Lucie Rie

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

 　　　　　　　　　

The Japanese Tea Ceremony

“It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.” (Okakura, 2006)

This is an interpretation of the Japanese tea ceremony by Okakura Tenshin. It had a profound effect on the concept of Japanese ceramics. Setting an ideal and approaching it is meaningful, and I think it is the principal approach to society by a ceramist. I also focus on that tea masters set their ideal space and tools into compact size. In my study, I will explore ideal shape and materiality into compact size just like tea masters.

     
Reference       Okakura, T. (2006) THE BOOK OF TEA Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.