볼커스 현대도예의 형성 요인에 관한 연구

A Study on the Elements Forming Voulkos’s Contemporary Ceramic Art

Peter Voulkos is one of the outsta nding artist s 111 America n contemporary ceramic art. who has transferred craf t from 'c ra ft as function ' to 'c raf t as ar t.' His philosophy of art as such has been formed by the influences of j apanese thought of Zen Buddhism, the Abstract Expressionism, and Cubism. Insp ired by Zen thought of j apan, he has confirmed that art comes from the mind. and has devoted himself to realization of ' sab i' as a characterist ic of j apanese ceramic art. Meanwhile such a thoug ht of ' sa bi' has been already introduced into America in 1906, which has been reviewed by a Brit ish ceramic arti st. Leach. etc. As a resu lt. Voulkos ' s ceramic art has led to prefer to the effect of chance being free from regularity. symmetry formed by the wheel-thrown method. As for the Abstract Expressionism. Voulkos has used its trend, improv isation and gesture, by which he has been deviated from the past convention to stress the resu lt of a work to a new direction to emphas ize the making process and the arti st' s intuiti on. Thus Voulkos has opened up a new horizon of ceramic art in his work s by stacking the slates, pressing, making the dent s. and using the gla zes producing bubble and crack. He also has used the characteristics of Cubism sugges ted by Picasso, Miro, etc. for his ceramic art. and he, by dest roying three dimensionality of ceramic art by usage of color and line. has come to under st and the energies of color and line in a new vision. In conclusion, I am sure that Voulkos can be recognized as an arti st who largely has devoted himself to establishing a new American aesthetics of ceramic art and destroying the European Romantic tradition in that his art world has been based on Zen thought of Japanese ceramic art being advocated by the Japanese ceramic artist s, Hamada, Yanag i, etc., keeping paces with the epochal background that America has begun to direct to the Oriental philosophy and thought from the early of the 20th century.