The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 7 posts.
The busiest day of the year was May 13th with 62 views. The most popular post that day was galleria (new images ).
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, argilla-italia.it, studiopotterpeveragno.com, mailbeta.libero.it, and ceramicacross.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ceramicacross, robert cross, robert cross ceramica, ceramica cross, and ceramicacross.wordpress.com.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
galleria (new images ) November 2009
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laboratorio / my studio November 2009
eventi, corsi July 2010
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catalogo vendite / sales November 2009
biografia November 2009
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Studio pottery is made by modern artists working alone or in small groups, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by one individual Much studio pottery is table ware or cook ware but an increasing number of studio potters produce non-functional or sculptural items. Since the 1980s there has been a distinct trend away from functional pottery (e.g. Grayson Perry) and some studio potters now prefer to call themselves ceramic artists, ceramists or simply artists. Studio pottery is represented by potters all over the world but has strong roots in Britain.
Per “Studio Pottery”o atelier di ceramica si intende il lavoro di artisti moderni che da soli o in piccoli gruppi producono pezzi unici di ceramica in quantità limitate e non in serie, soprattutto con tutte le fasi di lavorazione effettuate da un individuo (ideazione e progettazione, preparazione del’argilla, realizzazione a mano/al tornio, essicazione, biscottatura, preparazione dei smalti, smaltatura e decorazione, caricamento del forno, cottura) La produzione riguarda sia oggetti di tavola di uso quotidiana(tazze, ciotole, piatti, brocche, teiere ecc) che pezzi unici da arredamento interni e esterni e pezzi scultorea. Dal 1980 si è registrata una netta tendenza lontano dalla ceramica funzionale e alcuni “sudio potter” ora preferiscono definirsi artisti della ceramica, ceramisti o semplicemente artisti. “Studio pottery” è rappresentata da ceramisti di tutto il mondo, ma ha forti radici in Gran Bretagna.
Developed over thousands of years and then refined for another thousand, wood-firing, perhaps is entering the age of its greatest transformation to date. It now is being rediscovered across the globe, not only as an ancient tradition, but also as an expressive tool for contemporary art. To the artist, wood-firing offers a unique beauty and opens new lines of exploration.
Wood-firing used to be the only means to fire clay. Today it is the choice that can lead to stunningly beautiful ceramics. The effort required for wood-firing now is voluntary. With electric and gas kilns offering the ceramic artist almost effortless firing, why opt for seemingly unending days and nights of labour? Why, in the face of modern convenience, are ceramics artists internationally electing to wood-fire ceramics? Beauty offers the answer. It’s not an “Oh, that’s lovely”, sort of beauty, but an extraordinary beauty — a heart-achingly arresting beauty, a beauty of epic proportions, a beauty worth working for, a beauty only achievable by way of wood-firing. What else could motivate artists to dedicate so much time and effort?
Wood-firing is a gripping and often lifelong undertaking. Like all endeavours worthy of long study, wood-firing is infinitely subtle and endlessly varying. A firing in progress may appear no more complicated than keeping a bonfire burning – just put another log on the fire. But those who persist in wood-firing soon learn how rich and complex such apparent simplicity is. With numerous methods of vitrifying clay from which to choose, wood-firing now is practiced with an eye toward producing surfaces only possible by that means. From this embrace of the beauty of wood-fired ceramics begins the exploration to discover all that might be possible.
From “Japanese wood-fired Ceramics” by Masakasu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet
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