If I may believe the selection of the weekly dutch art program “Avro’s kunstuur“, most of the art has the human being as subject.

Whether it is video art of Priscila Fernandes or the photos of Vivianne Sassen; man is central. And if it is not the human itself, then it is its effect on the planet, as manifested in the architecture or the landscape.

Does this bother me? Of course not, everyone is free to have his own muse. But where most artists use these goddesses as a reflection of humanity as inspiration, I think for the ceramist only one of the nine muse “Urania” (the muse of astronomy, forerunner of all science), is a source for his or her work.

Not for nothing ceramics is known as the most scientific of the arts.

In ceramics is, after all, the control of the material of the utmost importance, and science has a great influence on the development of this art form.
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