Pottery
Pottery
Art of the Mud Man
“A brief discussion of collectable mud figures in relation to historical Chinese Pen’Jing & modern Bonsai.” Mud figure, mud man, san kai, whatever one chooses to call them, one fact will always remains the same...
Pottery
Bonsai-Penjing: Associated Art History of Mud figure or ‘Ni-Ren’ Accent Figures.
The ancient art of earthenware figures is always linked to that of pottery. At first, the figures of gods and animals were used to decorate the roofs of temples and palaces. They were also used as funerary objects, which later ...
Pottery
BAMBOO RUSTLE
A rustle hurries across the bamboo grove and cuts straight through the sky. Look now, wasn’t that a dragon? The dragon is on top of the chinese world of symbols. It pervades cosmic and mystic imaginations and stands for “...
Pottery
Methuselah
The potter shapes the pot out of clay, the hollow is where the usefulness of the pot lies. From LAOTSE – TAO TE CHING Older than the art of bonsai is the art of shaping and firing. Earth and fire, the cosmic elements, com...
Pottery
Enjoyment of Art – Kunstgenuss
Chinese art is among the most outstanding art traditions in the world. It has been collected and reproduced for centuries in the western countries. People have been interested in Chinese art for a very long time, but few have t...
