User:Slapell/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ceramic art

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Ceramic arts is a valuable field to evaluate when understanding sculpture, the discourse between craft and fine arts, and the appropriation of cultural practices through art making. The wikipedia page seems to be very comprehensive with a multitude of linked articles that delve further into the proccesses of pottery and the historical significance.

Evaluate the article
The article Ceramic art is introduce well in the first few paragraphs and captures the utilization of ceramics as functional wares and as decorative pieces. The objective content and balancing of specificity to general understandings is well done, and the catagroization between materials, surface treatments, history, and then current museums is well layed out. I found that each section touched on aspects that would not typically be discussed if only to be talking about pottery in contrast to writing about ceramic art. The source material supports the historical aspects of tracing ceramics across the globe and contains contemporary sources within the last 20 years as well as older publications, but doesn't have a multitude of perspectives besides the Western conceptions of ceramics. The writing of the article is clear and the rhetoric is understandable, but for a ceramicist there are key phrases that aren't discussed in depth pertainign to kiln firings, pyrometric cones, and a furthering of types of firings and their impacts on ceramics. In such following up with the visual layout I found the imagery to be unengaging and very oriented around the history of ceramics, without giving contemporary exploration. The talk section was where I found most interest as it delved into whether or not this page was listed correctly, and if by the common phrasing of 'decoration' was diminishing of art as a whole. Moving forward I would readress termonology, include more indepth analysis of other cultural uses of clay, and break ceramic art into more larger pages (funtional wares/ scultural/engeneering).