Expressive Slab Vase with Spontaneous Color and Texture
Paul Soldner
- Marked Down $1,685.00
- Gallery Price $2,800.00
- Title
- Expressive Slab Vase with Spontaneous Color and Texture
- Artist
- Paul Soldner
- Medium
- Clay, color pigment, glaze
- Size
- 21 1/2" height X 9 1/2" X 9"
- Date of creation
- Circa 1984
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- GJS
- About The Expressive Slab Vase with Spontaneous Color and Texture
Having directed a fine craft gallery in Illinois in 1976-1977, Soldner's ceramic work was deemed important then as well as now. Prairie House Gallery was honored to offer his work for sale.
Wheel-thrown and altered, raku clay, polychrome slips, iron and copper brushwork.
- About Paul Soldner
- (1921-2011) "Paul Edmund Soldner was an American ceramic artist and educator, noted for his experimentation with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, introducing new methods of firing and post firing, which became known as American Raku. He was the founder of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 1966." WikipediaNothing to Hide is a book by Soldner sharing his creative thought processes. A completely satisfying DVD titled Playing with Fire (2008) chronicles the artist physical approach to constructing his clay expressions. Countless peer clay artists are interviewed in this film, so you grasp Soldner's significance in helping to reshape clay sculpture on the world stage.Soldner enjoyed multiple retrospectives in the USA, one of them taking place at Arizona State University's Ceramic Research Center in 2003.
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