Spanish Ceramic Artists

Authentic sangria pitchers olive dishes and garden pots are a few of the unique items in the from spain ceramic collection.

Spanish ceramic artists. Joan miro is regarded as a towering figure in modern art. Artists and artisans working with ceramics have steadily contributed to the art world for centuries. These types of tiles a contribution from the moors islamic culture became known as talavera after the spanish ceramic centre of talavera de la reina in castilla de la mancha northern spain. Well known 18th century talavera tile painters and artists are josé mansilla el pino and clemente collazos.

Amelia strives to explore her creative limits with clay while at the same time maintaining a grounded practice based on tradition and craft. Amelia johannsen is a self taught ceramic artist and craftswoman based in barcelona spain. His most famous painting the farm shows the family s country house in mont roig del camp catalonia miro later said of the artwork i wanted to put everything i loved about the country in the canvas from a huge tree to a tiny little snail miro regarded the farm as key to his artistic career. She creates both fine art and sculptural pieces as well as functional pottery for everyday use.

Their ceramic plates are painted using a special stenciling process and then hand detailed with a paintbrush. The majority of the ceramar patterns are intricate kaleidoscope geometrics that bring to mind spain s huge arabic influence. International ceramics directory internationales keramik verzeichnisss collection of historical and contemporary ceramics links beginn your research of artists and potters from spain. Famed spanish artist pablo picasso explored ceramics later in his career for example yielding a remarkably prolific and consistently popular range of painted ceramic tiles plates and vessels that echoed the modernist abstract aesthetic for which picasso s paintings were revered.

From prehistoric pottery to ancient greek amphoras from the rise of porcelain in asia and europe to the arts and crafts movement in england and the u s ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists and infiltrated their practices in the contemporary art world this was never more clear. Each piece is individually hand shaped on a potter s wheel and then hand painted and signed by the artist. Angels and doves in the arts valentina pisarevskaya 2012 muse and creator lydia corbett goblet or chalice vessel with french armagnac eggnog lava glaze eruption at mid century the lava glaze ceramics of the 60 s were an extension of the bauhaus design concept of creating affordable decorative arts for mass consumption during the middle of the 20th century. Ceramar is a family run business in valencia spain.

From spain s ceramic and spanish pottery is handmade by local artisans. The farm 1921 22 joan miro.