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American,
b. 1939
Night and Day, Saki Set
1989
Earthenware
2.25 x 3 x 1.75 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
1990.3
Ron Nagel has dedicated his career to an intensive examination of the form of the cup. Night and Day, Saki Set incorporates the elements he is best known for: intimate scale, vibrant color, and significant attention to surface. This saki set plays with and comments on the social and cultural meaning of the cup. By embracing an intimate scale, Nagle acknowledges the ceremonial aspect of consuming saki. The surface design and bold yet simple colors of these cups are reminiscent of Josef Albers’s Homage to the Square—a series of experiments exploring color using solid square blocks. Nagle applies the glaze in a painterly fashion, with layer upon layer creating the saturated colors. This deep consideration of the surface and texture of Night and Day is a nod to the California Finish Fetish movement of the 1960s.
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