Luo Tianxi
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1965 he entered the Rongchang Pottery Factory, where he studied successively under the potter Yang Xueli, the mould-reproduction master Zuo Guangwen, the model master Peng Gaoxian and Professor Luo Mingyao of the Arts and Crafts Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, drawing on the strengths of many teachers.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1948, a native of Chongqing. National representative bearer of pottery firing craftsmanship (Rongchang pottery making techniques), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Senior Master of Arts and Crafts of Chongqing. He is skilled in the pure hand-forming method, a hand-forming technique that uses neither a potter's wheel nor internal or external moulds. He has mastered the decorative technique of blending a small quantity of monochrome glaze into a wide range of colours, together with practical glaze formulae. He excels at form design and production; his works are original in conception, concise and vivid in form, and distinctive in their decorative method.
Honors & Recognition
He has trained several hundred pottery workers. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and won awards. His works have received the New Product Hundred Flowers Award conferred by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
- Pottery Firing Craftsmanship Ⅷ-98
Profile
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