Mao figures Bill: From being in the "Everything Mao" shop over the past four years I have seen them making several new models for molds. What they work from are old photographs. I do not think they are thinking creatively or artistically, just financially. Will someone buy this one? Since a family based workshop with only three or four workers there is no marketing team researching China for the next hot Mao figure idea. I was told that they are willing to glaze and decorate a Mao figure to your specification. If you want him wearing pink pants and and a purple shirt with red stripes they will do it.
Thanks for inviting me to view your blog Hi researchers,
I am just back from a week long trip in the BWCA, and as a Qing historian and the program coordinator of the Student-Faculty Fellows Program, I look forward to finding out more about China through your research. I hope you have an enjoyable and productive three weeks plus in China. Take care.
Van
Thanks for inviting me to view your blog Hi researchers,
I am just back from a week long trip in the BWCA, and as a Qing historian and the program coordinator of the Student-Faculty Fellows Program, I look forward to finding out more about China through your research. I hope you have an enjoyable and productive three weeks plus in China. Take care.
Van
Porcelain designs Dear Gary and group: I am curious: Do the designers -- or artists -- in these procelain shops have much artistic freedom to experiment with various designs? Or does someone give them instructions on which figures to sketch and them craft into procelain objects, such as the heads of Mao? Hope all is going well.
Ceramic concept idea I enjoyed your pics of the various ceramic figurines being created in Jingdezhen -- especially the young woman straddling what looked like a Minuteman Missal. Perhaps you could suggest to the ceramic shop that makes these to do one with Hillary Clinton (in her classic pants suit) straddling a missal. In my experiance Chinese enterpreuners are usually open to new business ideas. Take care. Bill
Ceramic concept idea I enjoyed your pics of the various ceramic figurines being created in Jingdezhen -- especially the young woman straddling what looked like a Minuteman Missal. Perhaps you could suggest to the ceramic shop that makes these to do one with Hillary Clinton (in her classic pants suit) straddling a missal. In my experiance Chinese enterpreuners are usually open to new business ideas. Take care. Bill
Professor Gary Erickson, Macalester College, Art Department-Ceramics and three students received an 2009 ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Fellowship in support of a 24-day research trip to study contemporary Chinese art. Students Eartha Bell (Art History), Christina Park (Art History) and Pei-Hsuan Wang will be conducting their personal research by interviewing gallery personal, artists, professors and students. The trip will begin June 15th for five days in Jingdezhen, The Porcelain City of China hosted by the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, then seven days in Beijing to see contemporary art ga... full info
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Mao figures
Bill: From being in the "Everything Mao" shop over the past four years I have seen them making several new models for molds. What they work from are old photographs. I do not think they are thinking creatively or artistically, just financially. Will someone buy this one? Since a family based workshop with only three or four workers there is no marketing team researching China for the next hot Mao figure idea. I was told that they are willing to glaze and decorate a Mao figure to your specification. If you want him wearing pink pants and and a purple shirt with red stripes they will do it.