Ceramics (Plasticity/Hardening)
19th Century Organicism
Basic Forms of Pottery (after Ziegler)
Semper described the evolution of pottery in geometrical and historical terms. Using Ziegler’s diagram of ceramic type forms, Semper explained the plastic combinatory principles for 1803-79 creating variation in art. These principles were supposed to be as lawful as those found in the natural world. and historical terms. Using Ziegler’s diagram of ceramic
Geometric Analysis of Pottery Forms
were supposed to be as lawful as those found in the natural world.
Semper used geometry to analyze the formal relatinship between the hande typologies and pouring moment in differrnt types fo vessels. This comparative analysis immanently expressed the cultural particularity of individual cultures, as well as the principles that unified Semper’s between the hande typologies and pouring moment in analysis of cultural varieties in history. Comparison of Hydria and Situlacultures, as well as the principles that unified Semper’s Comparison of Hydria and Situla Semper beleived that cultural forms reflected the particularities of national peoples. This principle was illustrated by the comparison of the hydria and the situla, which became representative for Greek and Egyptian cultures ofrespectively Semper’s treatise. by the comparison the hydria andinthe situla, which
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