Photo: Brooklyn Museum-Creative Commons_BY
Photo: Brooklyn Museum-Creative Commons_BY
Photo: Brooklyn Museum-Creative Commons_BY
Photo: Brooklyn Museum-Creative Commons_BY

Tea Bowl

USA, 1900
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Date acquired:
Materials: N/A
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Toshiko Takaezu | 1922 – Present

Toshiko Takaezu made functional wheel-thrown vessels early in her career. Later she switched to abstract vessel inspired sculptures with freely applied poured and painted glazes. In the early 1970s, when she did nothave access to a kiln, she painted on canvas.

Takaezu incorporates hand built techniques in order to overcome the restrictions of the wheel and to form the closed vessels for which she is best known. Takaezu was at the vanguard of an artistic revolution that elevated ceramics from a craft to an art.

An interview with Toshiko Takaezu conducted June 16, 2003, by Gerry Williams, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America is available at: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-toshiko-takaezu-12097.

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