In his work that does not employ rope
impressed inlay, Shimaoka often
uses slip brushmarks as decoration. In this technique, a flat or round brush
soaked in white slip is run quickly over the vessel's surface to leave striped
strokes. As in whorls, the brushmarks can be assertive enough to be used
by themselves, but in most cases, they are made more complex by adding
one or two types of modifications. The variation of these modifications is
surprisingly rich and includes beating off the brushed white slip after it is
applied, scraping the slip with fingers, running a comb over the slip, and
adding iron glaze design and colours upon the slip. Shimaoka has favoured
brushmark decoration since the earliest days and used it regularly over the
years along with rope impressed inlay. This is because he finds brushmarks
are -for him- basically not decorations, but it is a way of creating the vessel's
body texture. Shimaoka has also produced some works that do not use
either rope impressed inlay or slip brushmarks. But in these, too, the
decorations are in white slip, in which he has made a variety of experiments.
In the contrasting white spots and stripes on dark coloured body, white line
decorations combined with design in iron glaze, and in the overall white slip
with wax resist design and added colour -or that without any decoration- we
can clearly see that this is a finish favoured by the artist. Shimaoka loves
it as a material as the vessel's surface texture like brush- marks and rope
impressed inlay, be he also holds a special respect for the elegance of its
white surface, which probably originates from his long admiration of Korean Yi-dynasty pottery with its soft and quiet whiteness
Click here to enter the different descriptive sections of
the exhibition.
Transparent Glaze.
Mixed Techniques.
Colouration.
Slip Dripping (Trailed Glaze).
Salt Glaze.
Kiln Effects.
TEXT: Click here for reading the
introductions.
Luca Patocchi, Curator of the Galleria Gottardo.
Adolf Zihler, collector.
Yanagi Sori, Message from the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokio.
Bibliography
Biography and most important exibits from Shimaoka Tatsutzo
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