In 1980s, progressive, experimental, and creative ceramic art rapidly grew up owing to the development of technology and the increase of ceramic art population. Therefore, this paper purported to examine the inside of the modern ceramic art, different...
In 1980s, progressive, experimental, and creative ceramic art rapidly grew up owing to the development of technology and the increase of ceramic art population. Therefore, this paper purported to examine the inside of the modern ceramic art, differently from the existing efforts of having described only the external circumstances of the modern ceramic art, and further, it attempted to prepare systematic theoretical foundations for the modern ceramic art. The subject of this study is the works that were made and released through private exhibitions in 1980s, and craftsmen’s works, which reproduced Goryeo celadon porcelains,
white porcelains, and grayish-blue-powdered porcelains, were excluded from the subject of this study.
experts’interpretations of the works, it tried to infer the tendency of the works of the modern ceramic art in that period. Therefore, this paper examined Korean modern ceramic art in 1980s in three parts. That is,
in the first chapter, it simply examined the circumstances of Korean modern art and ceramic art in that period, and in the second chapter, it examined the characteristics of Korean modern ceramic art in 1980s, together with the tendency of the works. In the last chapter, it studied more in detail about the characteristics and the meanings in the works in that period