Socially Conscious Ceramic Art

2 the lack of accepted standards of evaluation regarding what is exploitive oppressive and abusive rigid conceptual borders does not render the notion of social responsibility untenable.

Socially conscious ceramic art. In what follows i will argue that 1 all members of the human community including artists should strive to be socially responsible. Strongly influenced by the preceding paracas culture citation needed which was known for extremely complex textiles the nazca produced an array of crafts and technologies. Artists and artisans working with ceramics have steadily contributed to the art world for centuries. Schwarzman building june 17 2013 i think it s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power ai weiwei ai weiwei does not feel powerful bbc october 13 2011.

Critics assert that being socially responsible is the. Perhaps this is in response and or stimulated by ai weiwei. 3 artists must be educated to become active. Public art then capitalizes on the power of socially aware works reaching people in their everyday environments and confronting them with social injustice that is otherwise easily ignored.

While our conscience is related to our moral conduct in our day to day lives with respect to individuals social conscience is concerned with the broader institutions of society and the gap that we may perceive between the sort of society that should exist and the real society that does. Socially conscious art by jessica cline picture collection stephen a. For a while now i ve been noticing that more artists are making socially conscious art engaging with society more creating less art for art s sake and are more engaged with larger visions. The ceramic vessels of brooklyn based artist cody hoyt are some of the most intriguing and unconventional in contemporary art today.

From prehistoric pottery to ancient greek amphoras from the rise of porcelain in asia and europe to the arts and crafts movement in england and the u s ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists and infiltrated their practices in the contemporary art world this was never more clear. Social responsibility means that businesses in addition to maximizing shareholder value should act in a manner that benefits society. A social conscience is a sense of responsibility or concern for the problems and injustices of society. The nazca culture also nasca was the archaeological culture that flourished from c.

100 bc to 800 ad beside the arid southern coast of peru in the river valleys of the rio grande de nazca drainage and the ica valley.