Tea bowl has not received relatively much attention among Korea’s
cultural heritage despite its artistic value and emotional aesthetics. Many
historians and ceramists today are striving to shed new light on the hidden
value and artistry of tea bowl ...
Tea bowl has not received relatively much attention among Korea’s
cultural heritage despite its artistic value and emotional aesthetics. Many
historians and ceramists today are striving to shed new light on the hidden
value and artistry of tea bowl in order to define its identity.
This study aims to examine the aesthetic and formative value of tea bowl
and seek expansion of formative art by adopting the overlapping technique
using fibers and making new attempts at fiber art derived from the molding
of ceramics. First, it identified the formative beauty of tea bowl by
analyzing the names, origins, and forms of tea bowl, revealing that tea bowl
conveys the aesthetics of Eastern philosophy that pursues nature as simple
and unpretentious. Second, this study investigated the concept of
overlapping and the physical properties of fibers required for creating
works by overlapping flexible fibers and examined the quilt structure
comprised of layers of fiber. It was found that the quilts in Faith Ringgold’s
works can be a means of artistic formative expression beyond everyday
crafts, and Yayoi Kusama's overlapping technique using repeated patterns
found similarities to the researcher's expression of cutting fibers into small
pieces and repeatedly overlapped. The moon jars in Whanki Kim’s works,
conveying Korean sentiment, helped the researcher expand tea bowl from a
concrete form to an ideational meaning. This study confirmed the
expandability of the formativeness of ceramic tea bowl to formative fiber
art through various expressions of overlapping. Furthermore, this study has
academic significance in promoting the excellent cultural value and identity
of Korea’s tea bowl through art.