Using craft knowledge to produce the objects that are describatory to the subjective artist’s statement. (Dormer, 1994 s. 34) To consider Dormer’s view (1994) on plastic arts and his ponderings on the tacit knowledge considering painting, to be said that material based art, ceramic art, is fine art. Tacit knowledge considering how to paint and what to paint, corresponds well, what to be described when considering a ceramic art object as an artwork “- - craft of representational painting.” (Dormer, 1994 s. 36) Craft, an idea, an object; craft as a medium for execution, method for self expression, practical skill as a technical achievement, something that you would do in your studio practice. (Dormer, 1994, s. 7)
Arts & crafts movement, aesthetics/an object, an artist’s statement/an object.
To consider ceramic art as material based art, it can represent material aesthetics or an approach to decorative art, still not reaching neoclassicism (kertaustyyli), but a comment on itself. A vase can represent an idea or anything considering past decades, to issues considering taste. It would be preposterous to consider ceramic art to something that is merely usable.
Duplessis vase would have needed 10 professionals within the craft personnel to produce a serie, but now considering artistry, an artist and a benefiter off the craft knowledge, producing an artwork. A shape within material based art, an abstract blob. The lucky mishaps that you was even able to make such a thing/professionalism.
Is it because of the lack of art teaching within ceramicists, that artworks can merely describe a subject of a mind or societal problematic, but always is being considered something about of a monumentality, shape, feel or material behaviour. Is European ceramic art still on a level of a dysfunctional design object/which sort of titillates me as an artwork, a theme. Functional sculpture of something so vain!
(And here we see a painting of a vase/a still life. Dormer, 1994, s.35)
Or what contemporary ceramic art looks like, not what it stands for, or represents.