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Lucy Rea
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Lucy Rea was born in Austria. When she was young she was studying in the art school where members of Vienna studio were the teaching stuff.
Beauty of vessel’s silhouette for Lucy Rea is more important then functionality of one. Vessels of her early Austrian period seemed to be more functional but it was an illusion. Lucy experiments with glaze, clay and décor methods. In 1950 – 1960 she became famous for using sgraphitto decoration method that consists of scratching the glaze by pointed stick. Her special decoration mark is a lot of rough parallel lines that are disposed by the architectonical codes.
In 1950s her creations are over influence of the ancient Egyptian art. In 1960s Lucy Rea was decorating vessels by diagonal parallel lines that seemed like passed over the vessel by a fingers.
In 1967 she became keen about using new technique of modeling vessels of two clay balls of different colors on pottery circle. In the process of form different types of clay are not mixing but following each other arising spiral this is how the decorative uniqueness was reached by Lucy Rea.
Lucy Rea had a lot of the retrospective exhibitions. In the 1960 and 1966 she had an exhibition in Berkley Gallery in London. In 1967 in the gallery of “Art council”. In the 1983 in the Peter Dingly’s Gallery in New York. In 1992 in the “Art council” in London. In 1990s exhibitions dedicated to her art were in the Metropolitan museum in New York and in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Vienna.
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