APA RESEARCH PAPER

APA Research Paper

Bernard Leach

Bernard leach was born in the year 1887 on January 5 and expired on 6th of May 1979. Bernard was a British potter and also was an amazing art teacher. Bernard who is still known for his excellence in the field of pottery is also known as the father of British studio pottery. It was Bernard who had helped a number of potters grow over the years and even till date quite a few potters are influenced by his work. Bernard who had always helped the talent to grow in the field of arts had also helped potters like shoji. Leach was born in Japan and he started potting under the influence of Shigekichi Urano. He spent a major portion of his life in Japan. Leach has always had the love for arts; he started socializing with a group of Japanese people who used to love arts and would call themselves as Shirakaba (??). It was with the help of them that leach got to learn about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Leach along with the coalition with Hamada set up Leach pottery at St. Ives Cornwall in 1920. Both of the potters work a great deal to promote pottery. The reason for their excellence and growth was that they had been working on both the western and eastern philosophies. They used to combine both the philosophies and their product was somehow something that the world would be excited to see. They used the Chinese, Japanese, Korean pottery, and with these pottery they combined technique of pottery of England which were glaze ware slip ware etc. both of these artists thought that art was supposed to reflect a philosophy of the artist and this is why their works reflects their inner philosophies to a great extent. It is because of their hard work and commitment that the standards of pottery have been raised very high and for this they published a book as well which acts as a guideline for all those upcoming potters till date.

Shoji Hamada

Shoji Hamada, who was born in the year 1894 and died in the year 1978, Shoji, was a Japanese potter. He was a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei folk-art movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a world-renowned pottery centre. Shoji had studied at the Tokyo institute of technology. His majors were in the field of pottery. It was in the years 1920 when he travelled to England along with Bernard leach. It was very soon that they left for England after both of them had met. Just after 3 years that he went to London, he came back to Japan and started his own workshop which was at a distance of 100km from north east Tokyo in the city of Mashiko. It was his love for his country that he had come back to Japan. He had always thought of giving some back to ...