Women and Flowers: Contemporary Ceramic Artworks Based on Concepts and Styles of Female's Ceramic Artists' Works

Abstract

With the theme of women and flowers, this paper “Women and Flowers: Contemporary Ceramic Artworks Based on Concepts and Styles of Female’s Ceramic Artists’ Works” aims to make researches on concepts, styles,ideas and methods of female ceramic artists including the analysis on features of works and creative forms of six female ceramic flowers artists. By applying creative ideas and styles of female ceramic artists, the author has created a set of personalized ceramic works with the form of flower art. With the application of theories of design semiotics and iconography, the research findings are applied to creation of contemporary ceramic artworks. By analyzing artistic characteristics of the works of six female ceramic artists, including Yang Bing, Zhang Yalin, Wang Qingli, Liu Lejun, Huang Ping and Hu Saijun, the findings prove that the creative characteristics of contemporary female ceramic flower artists are self-creation language, aesthetic creative expression, perceptual creation mode and other characteristics, which are of great significance to the development of contemporary ceramic art. Through using ceramic new color pigments on glaze ceramic painting and choosing peony as the main element, the author has created a series of porcelain plate paintings named "Dew Red and Smoke Purple", which expresses women's tenderness and fraternity, tolerance and love for nature, portrays women's respect for life, reflects the diversity of contemporary ceramic creation and displays human love, and the positivism of life.