Abstract:

The aim of this study is to introduce Prof. Dr. Gerit Grimm, a German modern ceramics artist living in the United States, and her works and to contribute to the literature with a comprehensive source in Turkish. Primary, Gerit Grimm is a master of the ceramic lathe forming method. She received training on the ceramic lathe forming method by a traditional pottery artist in Germany for approximately four years before starting her education at art school. The artist is known for every abstract or stylized figurative sculptural compositions, which are produced using the ceramic lathe forming method and defined as multi-piece glued forms. Each sculptural compositions generally include multiple human figures with or without animal figures, which are adapted from various stories, fairy tales and mythologies. Due to the fact that they are produced using the ceramic lathe forming method, Grimm's works are unusual, completely unique and in a style with no previous examples in our country. She offers new horizons to artists, masters and learners of ceramics who produce/aim to produce works using the ceramic lathe forming method.

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