Title: A ceramic art center with a very unique and specific tradition: Boleslawiec
Abstract: When world's history of art is examined and analyzed, it's seen that today's understanding of art has been developed by nourishing from traditional art in terms of its aesthetic and technical aspects. As stated by Herbert Read, ceramic is both the simplest and the hardest of the arts; it's the simplest because the most primitive, it's the hardest because the most abstract of all arts. Based on this understanding, the attitudes of traditional arts and artisans which forms the roots of modern and contemporary art is of great importance on the way of originalization. The development of education has been started in Poland in the academic sense by the graduation of children of local potters from academies and the process of being the art center of the region of this place has been started thanks to the support given to Boleslawiec traditional production by fine arts education. In line with the education given to academically trained new artists, these people made the Boleslawiec as the cultural heritage of Poland with its handmade traditional production made with unique clay, high quality technical specifications and various types of decoration with the original and unique aesthetic value. Today, this production center that is world-known as Polish Pottery or Bunzlauer draws attention and becomes noteworthy with festivals, workshop tours, museums, exhibition halls and informative events describing the history of pottery held in recent years. Workshops, exhibitions, events and concerts have developed Boleslawiec into both traditional and contemporary art center by transforming into a traditional ritual. This study in which Boleslawiec art that is produced by use of stoneware clay which is the most qualified clay of the region and can be differentiated from its kinds with its different and unique decoration technique is examined and analyzed, emphasizes the importance of contribution of academic education to ensuring of continuity of traditional centers and formation and creation of high-quality production and manufacturing. Keywords: traditional art, polish pottery, boleslawiec, academic education
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-05-03
Language: en
Type: article
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