Ponimin, Guntur
Although previous studies on artworks have highlighted value-based expressions among humans in a variety of styles, very little attention was directed to exploring the robustness of love manifested in ceramic arts, that is, an eternal love relationship between man and woman. To fill such a gap, this paper reports on the production of ceramic arts that express the robu stness of love. The expression of the sturdiness of love is represented through forms and is reinforced by the material aspects of ceramic clay stoneware. To enact such a purpose, we deployed a creative approach in the production process, namely (a) the formulation of the concept of ceramic works, (b) creative exploration of the design of the work, (c) the processing of plastic clay stoneware taken from southern Malang, and (d) the creation of ceramic works with hand massage techniques directly and drying until the glaze burning process reached 1200 °C. This approach thus portrayed the representation of the solidity of love in the form of ceramic arts. © 2020 Research Center of Medieval Art Vasile Dragut. All rights reserved.
Department of Arts and Design, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang, Indonesia; Department of Craft, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, Indonesia
