Skidmore
Toshiko Takaezu
1990
- Medium
- Stoneware and glaze
- Dimensions
- 142.2 × 78.7 cm (56 × 31 in.)
- Genre
- sculpture
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
american artsglazeModernismcoilingmodeling (forming)American Arts and Crafts Movementabstractionceramicsamerican decorative artssculpturestudio potterydecorative object/ornamentpotterycontemporarydecorative arts20th Centuryglazingthrowing (pottery technique)hand-building (pottery technique)stoneware
About
Toshiko Takaezu revolutionized the world of clay with the abstract shapes and painterly glazes of her ceramic forms. She came to her signature closed vessels in the late 1950s, continuing to push their scale to new heights over the course of her long career. Takaezu related her simplified sculptures and expressive glazes to her engagement with Zen Buddhism and Japanese art and culture; for her, the form and decoration were intuitive and she embraced what she called “the unknown, the intangibles” in her work.
