Word: ceramicist
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...whose brother and sister are also artists, grew up in Lexington, Mass. His sister is a ceramicist, and his younger brother is a preparator for the Smith College Museum of Art. His older brother is an officer in the Air Force and is "as old as Ollie North," Tom says...
When Miró took up art studies in Barcelona (where one of his fellow students was the ceramicist José Lloréns Artigas, who would later become Miró's chief collaborator in sculpture), he started with the very specific, dense and playful sense of nature that only a country childhood can give...
...slapped his face. Seven years later the upstart left home to found his own school where his works could reflect his "burning and brimming emotion." Now his son, Hiroshi, 50, a famed film director (Woman in the Dunes) is vice president of Sofu's company and its chief ceramicist; his beautiful daughter, Kasumi, 45, also a vice president, is almost as celebrated a practitioner of ikebana as her father...
Pouring huge cups of tea with honey at his villa on the Côte d'Azur, the 30-year-old painter, sculptor and ceramicist-who was born in 1881-winked at his guest of honor, Italian Movie Actress Lucia Bose. Her child, Paola, whose father is Spain's retired superstar of the corrida, Luis Miguel Dominguín, is Picasso's goddaughter, and Lucia's presence, quite obviously, put him in an expansive mood. Why, someone asked, do the peaceful doves for which he is so famous never have any feet? Because, said Picasso...
...architecture; but the art of glazing had slipped to the point that the architects had difficulty in finding an artisan who could make the green, blue-grey and brown bricks needed for the ceiling. Finally they located one Oosta Yah-Yah. who had trained under a U.S. ceramicist, and he set to work making the bricks. Among the masons was a group of remarkable boys, 12 to 14 years old. Working in teams of three, the teen-aged bricklayers laid the 4-in.-thick, lozenge-shaped glazed brick literally on thin air, forming arches between the steel ribs...