Tom Bottman

American

Bird Cylinder Vase
1987

Porcelain
10 x 6.75 x 4.25 in.
Nora Eccles Harrison Ceramics
1988.7

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This object has the following keywords:

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• crescents - Motifs consisting of a curved segment of a circle, often suggesting a crescent moon.
• cylinders
• Moon
• stars - Massive self-luminous celestial bodies of gas that shine by radiation derived from internal energy sources. There are tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the visible universe.
• vase

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• BLUE Experience (ceramic works) , 1/12/2015 - 6/9/2015