Jose Parla Discovers Bizen Ware

by Staff, February 2, 2009

jose parla bizen ware 1 Jose Parla Discovers Bizen Ware

World renown artist Jose Parla takes us on a brief journey, discovering the art of Bizen ware, a type of Japanese pottery most identifiable by its ironlike hardness,
reddish brown color, absence of glaze, and markings resulting from wood-burning kiln firing. Because of the similarities between Parla’s use of rustic colors and the ancient pottery techniques, the natural connection seemed intriguing. A bit more about Bizen ware as well as a Parla created piece can be found at his official honeyee blog.

7 Responses

  1. Posted by: Tim on March 1, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    You can’t spell. Anyway, yeah lots of art is BS. Parla’s shit is amazing. At least to my eye. And it seems to transcend the art world to street art. It’s like a place where calligraphy and tagging meets with pollock. It’s moved tagging into something beautiful…rather than evolving from an ‘art’ scene, it’s evolved from culture. So that’s why I think it’s important. But art is subjective anyway.

  2. Posted by: josh on February 5, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    im josh

  3. Posted by: hulk hogen on February 4, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    that didnt even make sence ‘boss’ your just trying to sound smart

  4. Posted by: boss on February 4, 2009 at 5:06 am

    Art is what you make of it, just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If anyone tells you that there is a canon of Art, and everything else is Not Art, they just revealed their bullshit.

  5. Posted by: boombeebop on February 3, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    NAH, UR RIGHT. JUST ELABORATE BULLSHIT.

  6. Posted by: doofa on February 3, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    ^^^ IG NOR ANT

  7. Posted by: J Felix on February 2, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    I like art but some of it is just bullshit, what do you think curators are for? or maybe, i just don’t get it.