Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most importantly, like a glaze poured over a carefully-prepared entree, someone in this world is doing just that. In fact, somewhere in this city, there's a colony of Harvard students who've already finished 10 pages of their theses, and have already published them in The New Yorker and The Nation and People. And for the disbeliever, this shocker: this isn't a neurotic nightmare--here at Harvard, we lazies have met the enemy, and it is the overachieve. When we return to school and read that they've already won the Hoopes, the rest of us will...
...Buddhism started to flourish in Korea during the United Silla Period, ties between Korea and China strengthened. The ceramic wares of the Silla Period show a closer similarity with those of China. With Silla wares the first experiments with an ash glaze that may have formed in firing occured. The shapes of Silla wares are influenced by Chinese ceramics, as the decorated bases are supplanted by Chinese style footrings. The wares of the Silla Period also take on more organic shapes. While the wares of the Silla Period are not the most exciting objects in the "First Under Heaven" exhibit...
...like what most Western viewers would expect of Oriental ceramics. The collection of wares on display from these two periods are truly magnificent, and they stand as premier examples of the differing traditions of Korean and Chinese ceramics. In the Koryo Period, Korean potters perfected the technique of celadon glazing. Celsdon wares, glazed in a blue to green glaze, started in China and traveled into Korea. The celadon glazes, which gain their color from iron compounds contained in the glaze, were well suited as glazes for the grey stoneware used in Korea. Decorative techniques such as carving, incising and molding...
...there are more types of ceramics. In addition to the traditional stoneware, some ceramics are made of porcelain, a high-fired ware that is translucent when held up to the light. In the Choson Period, porcelain wares are painted with a blue underglaze, but they are also carved and glazed with a light celadon glaze. While similar traditions can be seen in contemporaneous Chinese porcelains, the shapes of Korean porcelains are more inventive. The porcelain wares of the Henderson are excellent representatives of the tradition. Finally, another ceramic tradition of the Choson Period is that of punch'ong stoneware. These...
...aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...