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Mata Ortiz Pottery in Puerto Vallarta

They are certainly some beautiful pottery as you go through to Puerto Vallarta many art galleries, and none is more beautiful than Mata Ortiz pottery. If you have not taken the opportunity to check it out, this is the time. Frankly, it will not hurt you want to get away from the Pool your Mexico villa for a few hours and get a little culture. You can get away with some nice Pottery, as well.

Mata Who?
Mata Ortiz pottery is in recognition and is enjoying growing popularity. The name is not that a person, but of a Pueblo (town) in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, near the border, where Mexico, Texas and New Mexico come together. The members of this small community (It is only a few blocks in size) made a name for themselves and began their pots in 1976, when she and her work was "discovered".

It is not so much that they start to "lose", which just happens to be the date that the outside world became aware of the exquisite work they produced. Master potter Juan Quezada introduced, or rather, again, the centuries old method of forming pots with coils made of local clay. Today, his students and followers to continue to make all her pots by hand without the use of pottery wheels.

This is a little more demanding folk art
It took not take for Mata Ortiz pottery to be recognized as a legitimate form of contemporary art long. Art lovers and ceramics experts will tell you that both the design and the decorative style derived from Paquimé Casas Grandes pottery, and from the Mimbres traditions of the American Southwest. Mata Ortiz artists do not simply re- old designs, but. Your work is unique and modern, despite its ancient origins.

Now that you are convinced that these bears looking at, you are ready to dash out the door or Mexico villa, but first you have art you are looking for a source for this Work. In Puerto Vallarta, see Mata Ortiz pottery from the Mata Ortiz Pottery Gallery (who knew?) In Lázaro Cárdenas 268A. And the Galeria de Ollas in Corona 176, has a large collection of signed pieces from the village. If you decide to purchase a piece, you take your time and really to look at each piece. They are all good to hear but if you speak for a particular down with them.

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