I love Picasso's work, I was unaware that he did so much 3-D art. I know many of his famous paintings but I haven't seen much of his ceramic work. My favority thing about Picasso is that he takes traditional icons, like people's faces, and changes them and morphs them. Each face is very unique because a characteristic of the face is changed. Another thing that changes the faces is the asymetry of them. Eather one side of the nose is bigger or a cheek is bigger on one side. I also like the flatness of the faces and how Picasso isn't interested in forcing a demonstration of depth. The handles on each piece are also very unique. Some are round, some are very small, and there is even a piece where they connect and one that looks like arms. My favorite piece out of this collection is the deep brown-red clay vase with the black paintings on it. I like how the spount is channeled in to a point before widening out again.

i love Picasso's work as well and i also did not know he did much 3-D work which is really cool. i love how he paints something he usually paints such as a morphed face right on the pots which gives each one a unique look. i have always loved how he changed faces by moving around a nose or switching lips and eyes so it is really cool to see these odd faces on a 3-D sculpture. my favorite one would have to be the 5th from the top, the rusty orange one with the black face because i love the contrast and the solid black lines. another thing i enjoy about Picasso's pots is how he incorporates the handles into the paintings on the surface like the tall blue and white sculpture. My other favorite piece is the fish at the beginning because because i love the blue and white contrast and the designs on the surface.

WOW, his work is incredible. the way he does not only do amazing shapes his glazing is also complex an fun. How does he "draw" on his work? that is soooooo cool. the way he adds faces and distinct patterns show his talent not only in a ceramics sense, but also in the drawing/ painting sense. this is amazing. I especailly like the piece of art that is shaped like a womans body but has a face in the center. I like the idea of how he did that.

Pablo's ability to glaze is what really makes his work stand out. He really brings his work to life with his glazing and it appears that it takes up most of his time when working with ceramics. Everything is finished to the last detail and there are no marks that are out of the lines that he picked. This is incredible and makes his pots look really nice but it takes to much time to be practical for me as an art student. The pots themselves are a little unusual mainly because of the amount of hand built stuff that he has added. His shapes are pretty but not that stand outish. What really makes Pablo's artwork special is his incredible detail in glazing.

Its really interesting how picasso is able to make his work become a canvas. For me when i first look at these pieces i focus more on the glazes rather than the forms. The bright sold lines realy make the piece seem as if he took one of his paintings and wrapped around the piece. His work seems very much sculptural to me at first glance. Most of his work does not seem to be functiona at all. But on the second look I noticed that most of these pieces are water vesels or something that food could be put on. He manages to disguise his work so well that it took me a while to see that it was also in fact functional. I am not a big fan of this work but i respect the amount of work and thought that went into the glazing and creation of these pieces.

With all of Pablo's work you can see a main focus that is contained in every one of his pieces. In each piece you can see that Pablo added about the same kind of face picture to each piece of work. He has personified each piece with making parts of it resembling a human part. For example the handles as arms, body of the piece as a face, or the bottom of each piece as legs. With most of his pieces i see more function than form, but a lot of them could be used either way. The strongest part of each piece though is his glaze work. Without the glaze work that was done on each piece and if there was some other technique used on them I beleive that they would not be as attractive as they are.

Picasso's unique and captivating syle and use of artistic drawings in accordance with the fundamental and dynamic shape of the art engender a certain and particular emotion from the art. In most of the art displayed above, Picasso uses certain, individual, characteristics of human beings to add life to the pots. For example, my favorite piece is a large, tan and black colored pot that appears to be a pitcher with an interesting handle on it. The face on this particular piece does not stand out or appear to be as dramatic as some of the others, but the casual blend of function, color, artistic drawings, and interesting form create a mesmorizing piece that is simply a pleasure to look at. Although some of the artwork Picasso creates does not appeal to my personal tastes, Picasso does display his creativity and artistic ability through the skilfull utilization of function with picture.

Wow, Picasso is truly impressive and inspirational artist. I definitely never knew that he made ceramics, I thought it was only paintings. The pieces are amazing though and now that I see them, I see his unique style represented in them as well. I love how he uses pretty simple and basic pot forms and decorates them or glazes them in such a way that they become these amazing people and animals, it's almost like the pots are alive. It is obvious that Picasso's main tallent is in painting, which he is wise to incorperate in his ceramics, in most of them the glazes look more like paint than a shiny glaze. The glazes also create a lot of illusions about the shapes of the pots, so at first I didn't even notice the shapes of the pots i just saw the paintings of people and things.

I like the way he draws on the pots. Its nice to see someone focusing on the drawing instead of glazing although he does use colors well. There is a face present on most of his work which i would consider his focus for his ceramic work. His handles and lids are what stand out to me in his work. my favorite piece is the one in the second row. I like it because of the tripod that holds the piece. It's nice to see something other than your everyday foot.

Overall I am kind of hesitant to say whether or not I enjoy his work. Looking over it, none of it really sparks any significant emotion for me. I do recognize his focus on everything after the bisque fire and do appreciate it. I really like how Picasso saw a human figure in all of his pieces. Whether it be the curves of a women or the bulbous head of a man, he saw a relationship between his forms and the people around him. I also do like his use of handles on almost every pot. He really positions the handles well in accordance with the shape of his pots and the painting he does on them.

I love Picasso's 3-D work (like many others, I did not know that picasso ever worked with clay). His work is fun and captivating, and his style definitely carries over into all medians of art. It seems like he really thinks about the surface before he makes the shape (as opposed to making shapes and then painting them as an afterthought). though his style is consistent and easily recognizable, each piece is unique. another thing i like about this work is the way picasso raises his work off the ground. none of his pieces have traditional feet; many have a little lip at the bottom or are raised off the ground in a more interesting way, like with the hands holding up the face.

I really like the way Picasso utilizes the form of both humans and animals with his pots. That and the glazing make for really interesting pieces, visually. There are definitely some similarities between his glazing techniques and his 2-D painting style. I really like all of his ceramic work here. My favorite of his pieces is the fish/pallella platter. The painting work done here is essentially what makes the piece so unique and I can really appreciate the unconventional, distorted way he interprets the forms. In all of his piece, it is clear that Picasso is continually inspired by basic forms in the world around him. It's awesome how he can see either an animal or human form in any of the shapes he creates and subsequently transcribes through his glazing/painting.