THE JOURNEY OF CERAMIC ART CRAFT OF INDONESIA BETWEEN OLD AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AS THE BASIC IDEA OF PONIMIN’S ARTWORK

A.Indonesian Local Culture as Base
1.Cultural Treasure of Nusantara (Indonesia)
In Geographic, according to cultural growth evaluation, Nusantara (old mention for Indonesia) could be told owning a geo-strategist area. There was a reason behind that term since geographical position of Nusantara --
as mention; Nusa means the island, archipelago, laid between strategic positions, those are:
a)Between West cultured Australian continent and East cultured Asian continent.
b)Between India and China which in the past were Culture centers in Sea Silk Road Line.
At that position, Nusantara became center for cultural diffusion, also became a center of cross culture. The culture diffusion and Cross Culture process happened along Nusantara’s journey.

PINCHING TECHNIQUE GAVE AN EXTENDED EXPRESSION FOR ARTIST IN MAKING FIGURATIVE ARTWORK

I would like to share my knowledge about pinching technique from Indonesia which has given me an extended expression in making figurative artwork.
It was called pinching technique since we shape the clay using our fingers. First of all we should imagine what we would be formed. The dimension and kind of expression should be considered first before we made the artwork. It would be better if we made a detail design first.
But if you have strong imagination, it would be great to concentrate to the shape we would make, then used our fingers to make the shape.

INDONESIAN CERAMIC AS AN EXPRESSION OF MAGIC – RELIGIOUS AND VISUAL – AESTHETICAL

Ceramic had known for long ago in whole world and also Indonesia The ancient people had also used ceramic as media to express their religious sense. For me, ancient the ancient cultural background which had acculturated with Indonesian local genius culture was an idea source which had to be dug and created for recent aesthetic expression.
Ceramic artwork to express religious sense had known in Indonesia in time of ancient Kingdom. It was formed in the shape of temples, figurative decoration, and statue in the whole Indonesia, which owed deep religious sense. The artworks described gods, religious leader, and Kings who were considered as the reincarnation of ancient gods in animism faith. When Islam entered Indonesia, ceramic was still used as media to express their religious sense in the mosques and Islamic schools.