Ceramic and metal artists of the twentieth century who joined clay and wire to the ideas of Modernism, Dada and abstract expressionism, treating the vessel or form as sculpture. An artist belongs here when the cited article calls the person modernist or names Dada or abstract expressionism. It excludes studio potters in the craft tradition. Their work uses clay, wire and other materials as sculpture and sometimes draws on painting ideas such as gesture and abstraction, and an artist is placed here by the movement or description the cited article names for the person.
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Marguerite Wildenhain (Wikipedia)
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was an American Bauhaus-trained ceramic artist, educator and author
Wikipedia: Peter Voulkos
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He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art.
Wikipedia: Toshiko Takaezu
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Instead she explored clay's potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts in a manner that places her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism.
Wikipedia: Ruth Duckworth
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Ruth Duckworth (April 10, 1919, October 18, 2009) was a modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics, she worked in stoneware, porcelain, and bronze.
Wikipedia: Ruth Asawa
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Ruth Aiko Asawa (Japanese: 浅和 愛子, Hepburn: Asawa Aiko; January 24, 1926, August 5, 2013) was an American modernist artist primarily known for her abstract looped-wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms.
Beatrice Wood (Wikipedia)
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Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893, March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917.
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