George Ohr: Art Potter : the Apostle of IndividualityGeorge Ohr (1857-1918) was the most revolutionary art potter of his time. Working in the relative isolation of Biloxi, Mississippi, around the turn of the century, he transformed symmetrical wheel-thrown pots into unprecedented abstract configurations |
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Abstract Expressionist aesthetic altered applied art pottery artistic Arts and Crafts Biloxi fire Biloxi Potteries bisque pieces bisque vase body bowl buff clay Buffalo Express ceramics charred color complex concept configurations Crafts movement created crinkling curves dark decorators double-necked early Ellison Jr ewer example FIGURE folding Frank Gehry G. E. Ohr George E George Ohr gestures Glass and Pottery glazed pieces illustrated incised Biloxi indenting kiln Late Period left Mark Linthorpe Pottery lobing Mad Potter manipulations Mark Misc midsection Milton Resnick molded neck novelty ware October 12 off-centering OHR BILOXI Orleans palette Peter Voulkos photograph piece Pl pinched pitcher PLATE pot Pl Potter of Biloxi potter's wheel Pottery Review quasi-cylinders right Mark Rookwood Pottery rubble ruffling scalloped shapes side slip snake snake handle souvenir sponge spout structure subtle surface swirls symmetry techniques Triggs twisting undulating unglazed Unmarked unusual vertical vessel wheel-thrown wide