Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 04-09-2010
Tags: art, mata, mata_ortiz, pottery, science
The Mata Ortiz Pottery Phenomenon – Manuel Rodriguez
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Mata Ortiz Pottery $29.95 A documentary video filmed on location in the remote village of Mata Ortiz on the desert of Chihuahua…. |
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The Mata Ortiz Pottery Phenomenon This film features the history, the economic challenges, and the contemporary artistic innovations of the Mata Ortiz ceramic community while providing a close look at clay gathering, pottery construction, painting and firing. 60 minutes…. |
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The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz $20.00 Over the past three decades a flowering of extraordinary ceramic art has been underway in a tiny village on the high plains of northern Mexico–hardly the place to expect an artistic movement in the late twentieth century. Yet art lovers have been coming from all over the world to see the people of this poor, backwater village of Mata Ortiz work their earthly magic at kitchen tables and backyards … |
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Portraits of Clay: Potters of Mata Ortíz $7.01 Not long ago, pottery was a lost art in Chihuahua, Mexico. But in the 1970s, near the ruins of Casas Grandes, an art revolution was born. Inspired by ancient pottery fragments from a tradition that had disappeared before the arrival of the first Europeans, a self-taught woodcutter-turned-artist reinvented an entire ceramic technology. Today Casas Grandes pottery, made by hand from local clays and … |
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Miracle of Mata Ortiz-c $40.00 A remarkable ceramic arts tradition is taking root in a remote village, high on the plains of northern Chihuahua, Mexico. This is the story of a phenomenon and of the potter, Juan Quezada, who began it inspired only by prehistoric shards…. |