Yet, although he is acknowledged by all the world to have been the greatest artist in ceramics of his or any period, remember pottery was only one of his interests.
Yet he was no stranger to Zen ideals; he kept a famous tea-ceremony aesthete as adviser and lavished huge sums on the special ceramics required for this ritual.
From the time of Ashikaga Takauji to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, these parties were an accompaniment to many of the courtly evenings spent admiring Sung ceramics and discussing Sung art theories.
The most significant booty brought back from this disastrous venture (now sometimes known as the "pottery campaign") was a group of Korean potters, whose rugged folk ceramics added new dimensions to the equipment of the tea ceremony.
Zen ceramics by subtle deceptions destroy our impulses to categorize, forcing us to experience directly materials, process, and form.
Through the offices of Zen a second revolution in Japanese ceramics occurred.
The ceramics of the sixteenth-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement and few people would notice a difference.
The look and feel of Zen ceramics make them seem forerunners of the modern craft-pottery movement, but few modern potters are blessed with the rich legacy of Zen aesthetic ideals that made theseceramics possible.
Indeed, a fine restaurant may prize its ceramics almost as much as its chef.
For this reason, Japanese ceramics were deliberately kept at a technically primitive stage until the early part of the thirteenth century while the Chinese were making considerable advances in the art.
ART Ceramics did not advance in the Heian epoch, but in all other branches of art there were rapid strides forward.
On vertical surfaces such protection is not necessary; the use of ceramicsshould therefore be confined for the most part to such surfaces: for friezes, panels, door and window architraves, and the like.
Ceramics should never invade the domain of the plasterer, the mural painter, the cabinet maker.
The enormous importance of ceramics in its relation to architecture thus becomes apparent.
The manufacturers of ceramics welcome co-operation and assistance on the part of the architect with an eagerness which is almost pathetic, on those rare occasions when assistance is offered.
But fired by the zeal of the convert the use of ceramics may be overdone.
Ceramics have, as regards architecture, a distinct and honorable function.
Now as to certain general considerations in relation to the appropriate and logical use of ceramics in the construction and adornment of buildings, exterior and interior.
It should therefore be of interest to all lovers of architecture, in view of the increasing importance of ceramics in building, to consider the ways in which these materials may best be used.
For example, Zen ceramics are always intended to force us to experience them directly and without analysis.
Sixteenth-century Zen ceramics could easily pass as creations of a contemporary potter, and ancient Chinese and Japanese inks and calligraphies recall the modern monochrome avant-garde.
This article represents the first work in the author's long-range study of ceramics used by the English colonists in America.
Norton, professor of ceramics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
What they'd overlooked was that these two planes still belonged to Mino Industries, and only Mino Industries had access to the high- temperature ceramics and titanium composites required to build more.
That Japan's so-called civilian research sector could create the high-temperature ceramics required for such a vehicle, even as European and American military research has failed to do so, speaks eloquently of the emerging shift in world .
Fortunately for the study of the early ceramics of Elam, we have not to depend solely on the rather inconclusive data which the excavations at Susa have as yet furnished.
It must be admitted that the suggested resemblance between the early ceramics of Northern Greece and Western Asia is not so striking as that between the separate members of the latter group.
At the Paris Exhibition of 1900 the display made by Sevres was perhaps the most notable feature of the magnificent collection of ceramicsgathered there.
The Great Pueblo Period was a period of continued specialization, not only in architecture but also in ceramics and in the minor arts and crafts.
In two different time periods there seem to be strong architectural relations to both the Chaco and Mesa Verde centers, as well as close ties in ceramics and other items of material culture.
The making of small figures is an important department of ceramics scarcely mentioned so far.
Any representative collection of ceramics will prove a veritable treasure house of suggestion to the student.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceramics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
