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almost a conflation of Bauhaus principles of functionality and Japanese aesthetics ... his lifelong interest has been in how you make a vessel not only functional but also beautiful and pared down to its essence. There are no frivolous handles or ruffles around the shoulders or little anthropomorphic fe...
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Arthur Haddock had great curiosity about painting, including its technical aspects
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He ground his own pigments. He took us to his workshop, and we each built a paint box and folding easel so we could go with him around the countryside.
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He's really about clean, linear structure, but with the sense that it is handmade. When you touch his pots, they don't feel cold and manufactured, even though he has designed for industry. They are very tactile. You can see the clay, and it's very inviting when he leaves it exposed.
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invented the classes as he went along
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The outcome for me was the [pyrometric] cone 5 was practical if I was going to make a living selling ceramics
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I worked out several clay bodies that have the characteristics of stoneware and a color palette using mainly metallic oxides.
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When I tried to work more spontaneously, I found that I was not quite satisfied with the work until I had done more to refine it one way or another
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