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Eva Striker Zeisel (born Éva Amália Striker, November 13, 1906 – December 30, 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things."

Refection number one on her art
I can see parallels with Brancusi both in self expression and in the tendency to find archetypal shapes.

Archetypes may not have been formally defined until the 20th century, but they existed far before then.

Archetype is seen as an inherited idea or mode of thought in the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung that is derived from the experience of the race and is present in the unconscious of the individual.

An archetype discussed in a recent presentation is the Shadow, part of the psyche that deals with what we repress or deny about ourselves.

Archetypes aren’t just shapes or characters, they can be symbols or situations too. Anthropologists study patterns from different places and eras, to better understand world history. Practically understanding patterns and symbols we can understand the culture. I will elaborate more about this in future posts.

Brancusi defined his art in the following way: "There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.". This is the very essence of his art: the ability to reduce things to their essence.

I made this comment of Brancusi on Zeisel's art because I feel that she was able to do the same in pottery that Brancusi was doing in his sculptural art: to reduce objects to theie essence, to their archetypal patterns.

Reflection number two

I can also see some parallels with Beatrix Potter's figurines. Zeisel's pottery is like Potter's drawings presented in a sketchy form. Probably this is not intentional, however when I interact with their art I feel the same sort of vibration - a very nice one.

Bonus: another article about Vincent Apap, OBE, sculptor also born on the history of art for the 13th of November on:

medium.com/@dr.victor.bodo/13t…

Description
Eva Striker Zeisel (born Éva Amália Striker, November 13, 1906 – December 30, 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things."

Refection number one on her art
I can see parallels with Brancusi both in self expression and in the tendency to find archetypal shapes.

Archetypes may not have been formally defined until the 20th century, but they existed far before then.

Archetype is seen as an inherited idea or mode of thought in the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung that is derived from the experience of the race and is present in the unconscious of the individual.

An archetype discussed in a recent presentation is the Shadow, part of the psyche that deals with what we repress or deny about ourselves.

Archetypes aren’t just shapes or characters, they can be symbols or situations too. Anthropologists study patterns from different places and eras, to better understand world history. Practically understanding patterns and symbols we can understand the culture. I will elaborate more about this in future posts.

Brancusi defined his art in the following way: "There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things.". This is the very essence of his art: the ability to reduce things to their essence.

I made this comment of Brancusi on Zeisel's art because I feel that she was able to do the same in pottery that Brancusi was doing in his sculptural art: to reduce objects to theie essence, to their archetypal patterns.

Reflection number two

I can also see some parallels with Beatrix Potter's figurines. Zeisel's pottery is like Potter's drawings presented in a sketchy form. Probably this is not intentional, however when I interact with their art I feel the same sort of vibration - a very nice one.

Bonus: another article about Vincent Apap, OBE, sculptor also born on the history of art for the 13th of November on:

medium.com/@dr.victor.bodo/13t…