My college ceramics teacher, Walter Hall,was very excited by this artist,Ken Price. I remain puzzled and intrigued by these quirky and intimate sculptures .visit this site: Ken Price and leave a response.
The textures and forms on his pieces are very interesting, and I can see how they would have elevated ceramics as an art, but at the same time they feel lifeless and unimaginative, unlike many other revolutionary artists who put emotion and creativity on a pedestal, he seems to have made pieces whose general lacks both of these.
I love the detailed yet simplicity of the sculptures he creates they are so sophisticated yet intriguing at the same time, I love the size of the the sculptors like they're just great!
There are some really beautiful colors that are included in his pieces. Also some of the shapes of the pieces were interesting because they didn't quite have a specific shape. I really liked the different colors that he used from the bold and bright colors to the more mixed and textured colors they were all equally beautiful.
i like the texture and i am very interested on how he got them to look of feel a certain way because clay is traditionally smooth. i like the snail cup that one is my favorite and really ties the other piece together for me. after the snail piece i could see how a lot of his pieces look like little slimy creatures
My favorite piece was the first one because the colors were bright and it seemed to have a rough texture. The unusual and unsymmetrical forms of each ceramic piece made me wonder what type of construction techniques Price used to make each unique shape.
The dilapidation of some of these shapes make me lose my appetite, in all honesty. I thought the Snail Cup was rather charming though, almost fairytale-esque.
The textures created by the blending of colors have an astounding effect on the pieces. Some of them were actually so incredible that they made me forget that they were covering an object made from clay. My favorite definitely was "L.Red" simply because I thought the contrast between the red and purple was quite intriguing.
These are... different. I can honestly say that I've never seen anything like them before. But I have to say, my favorite one is the "snail cup" even though I'm absolutely disgusted by snails.
It is interesting how Ken Price makes sculptures that seem familar but are truely his own. You look at the sculpture and think you see something that you would see in an every day setting but then you realize that is is abstract. Also I love how he plays with size in his sculptures. You can't tell if they are going to be big or small. When I saw the ones in the gallery I was caught off guard by their size.
All of his pieces seem to have a unique texture to them, and I find that really interesting. My favorite pieces are the smooth ones, that seem to flow in and out of themselves.
I really liked how he mainly used organic forms and shapes. They reminded me of food for some reason, like pudding or jello. I also liked the smooth surfaces. Those pieces are pretty cool.
I was really impressed by how well he painted his pieces, especially the shimmering ones. It's interesting to see how his larger pieces which are painted and seem very smooth make you forget they are even made out of clay. Overall I enjoyed his pieces except for the "specimen." Maybe I just don't get it but the shell kind of thing on the cushion didn't hold much meaning or beauty to me.
I really liked these sculptures. Though my favorite was definitely the snail cup (I really would like to have one the those), I also enjoyed the simplicity of his other sculptures. They were not complicated shapes, but the textures made them interesting. Also, I was surprised by the huge size of some of the sculptures.
The colors are really beautiful and although most of these are blob forms there is really cool color and texture to all of them. We can also see he is a good sculpture maker because we see the snail cup too, which is what we would think of as a typical piece a ceramicist would make.
I really enjoyed the colors used in each of the pieces. They really made each individual sculpture "pop." I also thought all of the pieces went together, as if part of one collection. My favorite must have been the snail cup. I like the way some artists incorporate animals into their works.
I really liked the color of the first few pieces. I also liked the weird blobby shape of some of the pieces as well as the hole with the sticks sticking out.
I understand why you are intrigued and puzzled by these sculptures, for I feel the same way. While some of his works of art looked most unappetizing, he did have a few that were rather charming, like the snail cup. I did not realize how large the sculpture were until people were standing by them.
These sculptures were really interesting. Honestly a lot of the had weird shapes like blobs and by itself it really wouldn't look that great but the colors and textures really made them unique. Personally I like the first sculpture shown. Even though it was blob shaped the mix of reddish brown and silver specks was really pretty.
I really like these pieces of art. In some he succeed in fooling our eye by making something hard look soft and malleable. The smoothness and those virtually perfect curves in many of his pieces is also something worth admiring."Ultra-Purple" is my favorite one, i love the colors and the texture. Too bad he died, man.
I'm curious, how did he get the texture/color of those first two sculptures? It's really cool and makes those stand out. They're definitely my favorites.
I really enjoyed looking at his pieces! They reminded me of my mastery of the medium. I like the textures that he creates, wither with the clay itself or with the paint (which would give the appearance of textures I guess). He also picked some funky pieces that looked like there was something oozing out of the side, which I thought was really cool. Overall, I give my seal of approval! [:)]
Are all of these sculptures made out of clay? If so, I'd really like to know how he is able to get all of the different textures. The second picture caught my eye, I like the use of color, shape and texture. I also think it's kind of cool that he uses blob shapes..
These sculptures are very cool. I really like the snail cup and it is interesting how much he works with textures. One of the sculptures on the first slide looked a lot like a porcupine and a lot of the others looked like piles of glob. And that pile of gob is art. They're kinda weird and yucky looking but cool at the same time.
I liked the different surfaces on the pieces and how the texture was visible. I could tell by looking at it whether the pieces were rough or smooth. I liked how each of the raised surfaces on the pieces seemed to be intentional. I also like the different colors and shapes of the sculptures. I appreciated how the sculpture was able to manipulate the objects to make them twist and turn in different directions. Also I liked the multi-colors and the shiny slip that was sometimes used to add gloss to the artwork.
The thing that interested me the most was his choice of glaze. The colors are what make his sculptures stand out to me. The Snail Cup is my favorite because the snail looks so realistic.:)
I like Ken Price's sculptures. They were very unique and abstract. Abstract art forces me to take a moment to look at it, and absorb all of it's qualities. I like how balanced the pieces look, and they are also very colorful and shiny. The texture looks difficult to achieve also.
i don't find his sculptures particularly interesting but the colors do make them a little more interesting. the designs didn't really seem to represent anything in their shapes
I wonder what inspires him to make such shapes and objects which are rather out there. I found the greenware to be the most interesting part of his work and the quality of its application on the pieces. Also I enjoyed his works because of the smoothness which I can never really achieve on my clay sculptures which he accomplishes wonderfully.
The texture of each piece has the appearence of certain fluidity and movement, however, the meticulous nature of the creator is easily examined as well.
Although there weren't close-ups of them, I found the pieces in the first picture very interesting. The rough/lumpy outside with a section cut away to reveal a clean-cut geometric shape was a really cool combination.
I like how the artist played with the stereotypical forms of ceramic pieces to create something that one would consider as the work of an artist and not as the work of a craftsman. I liked the ones that resembled "blobs" the most because it appears that he crated these from on piece of clay, and they have a nice flow to them.
Although the sculptures are simple, i think they are very well put together and detailed in their own way. It seems as though alot of thought was put into the idea behind each sculpture and they are all unique. I especially like pictures two and three because of the way they are painted and the pattern and also the shape of the sculpture.
They are detailed and simple. The simplicity creates a sophistication that is rarely present in other artwork. I really like the "slope". The colors used are lovely and the sculpting makes it a very fluid and relaxing piece to observe.
I really like how he made the pieces into blobs almost because when you usually make sculptures its usually something you can use like pots and stuff or a sculpture of someone
His sculptures are unbelievable! They're simple, with a smooth base and of varying textures. Despite their simplicity, they can't help but catch your eye and make you stop to say "woah," in admiration.
It was interesting looking through Ken Price's sculptures. He was a master at playing around with layering, levels and creating unique and diverse openings in his sculpture. It's hard to imagine that Price's beautiful and crafty sculptures once looked like the pots we're creating in class right now. I was most impressed by his sculpture that utilized other materials, such as wood and what appeared to be cloth. He definitely had an eye for pleasing shapes.
His work definitely involved a lot of free-form and abstract shapes, my favorites being "Slope" and "Snail-Cup". It must have taken him a bit to smooth out and shape the clay to what he wanted to see in it. The be-speckled finish was a nice touch as well.
The forms he uses remind me of lava and how it flows in thick waves. His pieces seem to have a science them to me, especially the work titled "Specimen" and the two pieces that look as if worms are crawling from an opening. I also love his use of color. The pots we're currently working on only use two colors, and it's nice to see bright purples, greens, and reds. It helps to make the pieces come alive. I think my favorite out of these 10 pictures, is the first one titled "Slope". I like the metallic feel and the texturing. I also like the way it seems to sag.
I liked the textures, also the paint job on these pieces are really nice looking, some of the pieces look strange though, I don't think that they look quite right
The most impressive/unique aspect of these sculptures, to me, are the textures he uses. It seems like it would be difficult technically as well as difficult creatively to produce the diversity and quality of textures he uses on the surfaces of his ceramics.
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The textures and forms on his pieces are very interesting, and I can see how they would have elevated ceramics as an art, but at the same time they feel lifeless and unimaginative, unlike many other revolutionary artists who put emotion and creativity on a pedestal, he seems to have made pieces whose general lacks both of these.
I love the detailed yet simplicity of the sculptures he creates they are so sophisticated yet intriguing at the same time, I love the size of the the sculptors like they're just great!
There are some really beautiful colors that are included in his pieces. Also some of the shapes of the pieces were interesting because they didn't quite have a specific shape. I really liked the different colors that he used from the bold and bright colors to the more mixed and textured colors they were all equally beautiful.
i like the texture and i am very interested on how he got them to look of feel a certain way because clay is traditionally smooth. i like the snail cup that one is my favorite and really ties the other piece together for me. after the snail piece i could see how a lot of his pieces look like little slimy creatures
i liked the pecies twords the end more, but they are all intresting in the way they are textured
My favorite piece was the first one because the colors were bright and it seemed to have a rough texture. The unusual and unsymmetrical forms of each ceramic piece made me wonder what type of construction techniques Price used to make each unique shape.
The dilapidation of some of these shapes make me lose my appetite, in all honesty. I thought the Snail Cup was rather charming though, almost fairytale-esque.
The textures created by the blending of colors have an astounding effect on the pieces. Some of them were actually so incredible that they made me forget that they were covering an object made from clay. My favorite definitely was "L.Red" simply because I thought the contrast between the red and purple was quite intriguing.
These are... different. I can honestly say that I've never seen anything like them before. But I have to say, my favorite one is the "snail cup" even though I'm absolutely disgusted by snails.
It is interesting how Ken Price makes sculptures that seem familar but are truely his own. You look at the sculpture and think you see something that you would see in an every day setting but then you realize that is is abstract. Also I love how he plays with size in his sculptures. You can't tell if they are going to be big or small. When I saw the ones in the gallery I was caught off guard by their size.
All of his pieces seem to have a unique texture to them, and I find that really interesting. My favorite pieces are the smooth ones, that seem to flow in and out of themselves.
whoa snail cup, what a great idea. how awesome is it to have a cup modeled after a snail? too awesome.
I really liked how he mainly used organic forms and shapes. They reminded me of food for some reason, like pudding or jello. I also liked the smooth surfaces. Those pieces are pretty cool.
I was really impressed by how well he painted his pieces, especially the shimmering ones. It's interesting to see how his larger pieces which are painted and seem very smooth make you forget they are even made out of clay. Overall I enjoyed his pieces except for the "specimen." Maybe I just don't get it but the shell kind of thing on the cushion didn't hold much meaning or beauty to me.
I really liked these sculptures. Though my favorite was definitely the snail cup (I really would like to have one the those), I also enjoyed the simplicity of his other sculptures. They were not complicated shapes, but the textures made them interesting. Also, I was surprised by the huge size of some of the sculptures.
The colors are really beautiful and although most of these are blob forms there is really cool color and texture to all of them. We can also see he is a good sculpture maker because we see the snail cup too, which is what we would think of as a typical piece a ceramicist would make.
I really enjoyed the colors used in each of the pieces. They really made each individual sculpture "pop." I also thought all of the pieces went together, as if part of one collection. My favorite must have been the snail cup. I like the way some artists incorporate animals into their works.
I really liked the color of the first few pieces. I also liked the weird blobby shape of some of the pieces as well as the hole with the sticks sticking out.
I understand why you are intrigued and puzzled by these sculptures, for I feel the same way. While some of his works of art looked most unappetizing, he did have a few that were rather charming, like the snail cup. I did not realize how large the sculpture were until people were standing by them.
These are cool but the first few kind of grossed me out, they just had a strange form and didn't look very attractive...
These sculptures were really interesting. Honestly a lot of the had weird shapes like blobs and by itself it really wouldn't look that great but the colors and textures really made them unique. Personally I like the first sculpture shown. Even though it was blob shaped the mix of reddish brown and silver specks was really pretty.
I really like these pieces of art. In some he succeed in fooling our eye by making something hard look soft and malleable. The smoothness and those virtually perfect curves in many of his pieces is also something worth admiring."Ultra-Purple" is my favorite one, i love the colors and the texture. Too bad he died, man.
I'm curious, how did he get the texture/color of those first two sculptures? It's really cool and makes those stand out. They're definitely my favorites.
I really enjoyed looking at his pieces! They reminded me of my mastery of the medium. I like the textures that he creates, wither with the clay itself or with the paint (which would give the appearance of textures I guess). He also picked some funky pieces that looked like there was something oozing out of the side, which I thought was really cool. Overall, I give my seal of approval!
[:)]
Are all of these sculptures made out of clay? If so, I'd really like to know how he is able to get all of the different textures. The second picture caught my eye, I like the use of color, shape and texture. I also think it's kind of cool that he uses blob shapes..
These sculptures are very cool. I really like the snail cup and it is interesting how much he works with textures. One of the sculptures on the first slide looked a lot like a porcupine and a lot of the others looked like piles of glob. And that pile of gob is art. They're kinda weird and yucky looking but cool at the same time.
I liked the different surfaces on the pieces and how the texture was visible. I could tell by looking at it whether the pieces were rough or smooth. I liked how each of the raised surfaces on the pieces seemed to be intentional. I also like the different colors and shapes of the sculptures. I appreciated how the sculpture was able to manipulate the objects to make them twist and turn in different directions. Also I liked the multi-colors and the shiny slip that was sometimes used to add gloss to the artwork.
The thing that interested me the most was his choice of glaze. The colors are what make his sculptures stand out to me. The Snail Cup is my favorite because the snail looks so realistic.:)
I like Ken Price's sculptures. They were very unique and abstract. Abstract art forces me to take a moment to look at it, and absorb all of it's qualities. I like how balanced the pieces look, and they are also very colorful and shiny. The texture looks difficult to achieve also.
i don't find his sculptures particularly interesting but the colors do make them a little more interesting. the designs didn't really seem to represent anything in their shapes
I wonder what inspires him to make such shapes and objects which are rather out there. I found the greenware to be the most interesting part of his work and the quality of its application on the pieces. Also I enjoyed his works because of the smoothness which I can never really achieve on my clay sculptures which he accomplishes wonderfully.
These pieces have obviously taken a lot of time and effort to make.
These pieces obviously took a lot of time and effort to make.
The texture of each piece has the appearence of certain fluidity and movement, however, the meticulous nature of the creator is easily examined as well.
I think the really large ones are coolest. I enjoy life sized art.
Although there weren't close-ups of them, I found the pieces in the first picture very interesting. The rough/lumpy outside with a section cut away to reveal a clean-cut geometric shape was a really cool combination.
his designs are very abstract in my opinion. i see the correlation of the titles to the pieces but others are mind boggling.
I like how the artist played with the stereotypical forms of ceramic pieces to create something that one would consider as the work of an artist and not as the work of a craftsman. I liked the ones that resembled "blobs" the most because it appears that he crated these from on piece of clay, and they have a nice flow to them.
I actually don't really like the pieces, the first few pictures aren''t really aesthetically pleasing and lack cohesion between different elements of the piece. The later ones don't seem to be shaped quite right, for the most part the only redeeming value is the speckled paint covering, which is somewhat cliché.
Although the sculptures are simple, i think they are very well put together and detailed in their own way. It seems as though alot of thought was put into the idea behind each sculpture and they are all unique. I especially like pictures two and three because of the way they are painted and the pattern and also the shape of the sculpture.
They are detailed and simple. The simplicity creates a sophistication that is rarely present in other artwork. I really like the "slope". The colors used are lovely and the sculpting makes it a very fluid and relaxing piece to observe.
I really like how he made the pieces into blobs almost because when you usually make sculptures its usually something you can use like pots and stuff or a sculpture of someone
His sculptures are unbelievable! They're simple, with a smooth base and of varying textures. Despite their simplicity, they can't help but catch your eye and make you stop to say "woah," in admiration.
It was interesting looking through Ken Price's sculptures. He was a master at playing around with layering, levels and creating unique and diverse openings in his sculpture. It's hard to imagine that Price's beautiful and crafty sculptures once looked like the pots we're creating in class right now. I was most impressed by his sculpture that utilized other materials, such as wood and what appeared to be cloth. He definitely had an eye for pleasing shapes.
His work definitely involved a lot of free-form and abstract shapes, my favorites being "Slope" and "Snail-Cup". It must have taken him a bit to smooth out and shape the clay to what he wanted to see in it. The be-speckled finish was a nice touch as well.
The forms he uses remind me of lava and how it flows in thick waves. His pieces seem to have a science them to me, especially the work titled "Specimen" and the two pieces that look as if worms are crawling from an opening. I also love his use of color. The pots we're currently working on only use two colors, and it's nice to see bright purples, greens, and reds. It helps to make the pieces come alive. I think my favorite out of these 10 pictures, is the first one titled "Slope". I like the metallic feel and the texturing. I also like the way it seems to sag.
I liked the textures, also the paint job on these pieces are really nice looking, some of the pieces look strange though, I don't think that they look quite right
The snail cup was really interesting and it obviously required a lot of technical skill.
The most impressive/unique aspect of these sculptures, to me, are the textures he uses. It seems like it would be difficult technically as well as difficult creatively to produce the diversity and quality of textures he uses on the surfaces of his ceramics.
I couldnt really grasp the whole concept behind the art work. Other than I guess there's more to the image than what it seems...if that makes sence.
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