Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Sculpted Vase
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Sculpted Vase
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Alternate Title:
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Vase sculpté
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Image View:
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Overall view from the back, showing part that was wheel-thrown, decorated with a "floating" couple
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Creator:
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Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 1887-1985)
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Location:
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repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
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Location Note:
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36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
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GPS:
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+43.709167+7.269536
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Date:
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1952 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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vase
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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fired ceramic: clay; oxides; glazes
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Technique:
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carving (processes); fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; potter; wheel thrown; woman; goat; sgraffito
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Description:
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In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs, for example The Betrothed (h. 318 mm, 1957; priv. col., see Haftmann, p. 34). During a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. Chagall, unlike most artists, was not content with decorating pieces made by professional potters. He himself molded his clay and created original forms. In this work he took a wheel-thrown vase and cut away the back, engraved it (sgraffito) with a knife, painted it with oxides and glazes, and added a hand and figurine of a goat to the base. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CHAGALL-SV1-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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