A search for "Mysteries of the Kylix" will turn up a few copies of the video.
Posted on 10/08/2015 2:01:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Johns Hopkins University has released Mysteries of the Kylix, a film that follows 13 undergraduate students who worked with a conservator and two potters to recreate the red-figure pottery drinking bowls crafted by Greek artisans between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C. The students practiced throwing pots, decorated them with images and slip, and fired the clay in a kiln that they constructed. They then examined their pottery under a portable x-ray fluorescence instrument. "The idea is to be thoughtful at every stage. To look at clay, make shapes, to choose images and paint, to go through the fire and kiln process, and to consider the final product. This leads to a deeper understanding of both the art and the object, because when you go through the process, you get a visceral sense of how things got there," Sanchita Balachandran, curator/conservator of the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum, said in a press release. To read more about experimental archaeology, go to "The Neolithic Toolkit."
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
and the damned things were probably tucked away in DUZ laundry detergent boxes in the day ... cheap throw-aways !
Interesting video.
Thanks, SC.
They didn’t learn how to do this in 4th grade art class or summer camp? How sad they’re clueless on siphoning gas (yeah, older cars) and have to have a posed model to draw from.
The American Indians used dyes from colored stones and fired their pottery in holes in the ground with manure as fuel.
WOW! I hadn't thought of DUZ in many years. Easy DUZ it
LOL. Back in the good old days.....
Along with LUX (Remember LUX Radio Theater?)....
Halo shampoo...
Oxydol.....etc, etc...
Carters Little Liver Pills
memory lane
For a far more “legit” attempt to recreate an ancient production process, go look up the documentary on the +ULFBERH+T sword called “Secrets of the Viking Sword”. The guy figures out how to generate a highly-refined ingot of steel using a handbuilt brick kiln, starting with raw iron ore, then forges it (by hand, natch) into a replica of one of the finest weapons you could have had in those days.
A sample of the steel he made was analyzed by a modern steel company, and it was virtually identical to steel processed using modern methods (good carbon, very few inclusions, good crystal pattern etc).
:') The graffiti the artists left on some of the originals is interesting in its own right.
When I get on a real pc I’ll have a look. :)
:’) Those imaginary PCs just don’t cut the mustard.
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