Explaining The Three Different Types Of Pottery
Pottery is an art that is not well known to everybody. It is type of job needs industry aside from creativity and passion to be able to create pots. These signify that pottery is not an ordinary job, it involves art but many people failed to recognize it. Pottery artists used to make clay pots with their bare hand but in recent time, pottery has evolved.
A building that collapse before it is finished is not an art so is a distorted pot. But a pot with perfect dimensions and perfect balance is a work of an artist. Not all has this ability or skills to create such thing.
Art does not only mean perfect pot in terms of size and perfect color. Art means the pot itself expresses something meaningful from the potters’ perspectives.
Flower bases, cup, mugs etc. are just examples of products produced in pottery industries. These are just some of the commonly recognized potteries but there are many more of them. Some are new and some are even buried for hundreds of years.
Different pots are molded from different types of pottery such as stoneware, porcelain and earthenware which were heated at varied temperatures to create different mediums made into different types of pots.
The degree of temperature use to cook the different types of pottery affects the produced pots durability. Earthenware pots are less durable then stoneware pots because lower temperature is used to cook it.
Porcelain is heated at high temperature (1200C) which makes it strong but breakable and the special type of clay material used also result to it translucent appearance. A very popular example of a pottery developed from porcelain is the Chinese plate.
Pottery is not an easy job, from the materials preparation alone you need to have enough knowledge to produce the right material for particular pots. To shape the different designs of pots, you need real talent to create a perfect pot. Hence pottery is not just a job, it is an art.
