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Messages left in ceramics

Comments on the ceramics of Marika Klastová

by Zuzana Labudová

Portfolio of Marika Klastová (the AFAD in Bratislava, painting, mentored by Prof. Želibský, graduated in 1979) includes various fine arts disciplines such as ceramics, painting and drawing. When her new creative period started in 2000, she has prioritised ceramic art as it is an art discipline allowing more freedom for experimenting with colours and shapes. Testing new technologies and procedures is predominantly performed by working with glaze and earth colour and utilising transparency, layering, flowing, mingling or removing of colours. She makes her artworks by hand-shaping, moulding and shaping of details. The artist prefers a bowl-like shape in her artwork.

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Further articles magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2008:

• On things and design
• Jewellery Art Symposium Kremnica 2008
• Creativity without borders
• Messages left in ceramics
• Fourth dimension of glass
• SUCH DESIGNED - HANDMADE - IN LONDON
• Dress according to a portrait of Elizabeth Báthory
• Development spiral or easily to the jubilee of the Number Four Act
• Miloš Pitoňák – a family tradition descendant
• Viliam Hronec – the master of ceramic production
• Folk art puppets from the collection of Anton Anderle
• Wire jewellery and clothing accessories
• Crafts in architecture – shingle making

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