SENI GERABAH or JOGJAKARTA ART POTTRY

Art Pottry Jogjakarta - Indonesia ( Seni Gerabah Yogyakarta )
One regional shopping destination souvenirs in Yogyakarta is in Kasongan, Bantul. This area is famous for its pottery cottage industry. Audiences who may not understand is who made pottery in the soil is not soil Kasongan, but (one) of land from Godean, west of Yogyakarta. Strangely in Godean own, the land engineered form of roof tiles and in Kasongan become household appliances. The character of this rugged land and the high sand content, is also not able to be engineered for high fire techniques, such as glazes hot combustion requires more than 1000 degrees Celsius.

Yogyakarta soil will crack at temperatures over 800 degrees Celsius. Therefore, these products tend to be thick and Kasongan is growing outdoor products. In the 70s, Sapto Hudoyo (deceased), assorted artists whose names scent of Yogyakarta, a game to Kasongan and making sculptures of horses and scaly dragon with paint finishing plitur. The purpose was so that one can go home Kasongan earthenware and can be sold more expensive. Soon after that jug, keg, brazier, a pot, et al, side by side with Sapto Hudayanan pottery styles. This style lasted until the end 80'an. Year to date according to 90 'with the emergence of a natural lifestyle trends and the influence of the buyer who comes from outside Jogja or Indonesia, pottery Kasongan become more attractive.


Still not far from the original barrel, pot, and his brothers were into a barrel and pots bali style, Japanese style, Chinese style, and emerged a new design such as lamp shades, pucukan roof, with a variety of styles. All new style almost without polish pottery aka Raw (academic term "biscuit"), but the local style painted colors still exist by using various techniques such as disaput, scraped, resulting paint, etc.. Ceramic pottery enthusiasts say this kind - which is painted - a low value and ndesit. However, local aesthetics flinch.

 Land Land is different from Yogyakarta Malang East Java or Sukabumi in West Java, which can be burned directly with the high temperature was so taken from the rivers. Instinct to decorate, beautify, and entertaining always move with the development of mankind and the dynamics habitualnya. Soil characteristic Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta society that is open and dynamic, the desire to imitate the creative power that make Yogyakarta always longed to visit again.

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