约翰·史蒂文森是美国著名陶艺家和教育家,他曾担任密西根大学艺术学院院长,他从克伦布鲁克艺术学院和克利夫兰艺术学院完成了学士、硕士和博士学位。在他长达40年的艺术生涯中,约翰不管在他任何年龄段期间,作品都充满了挑战和生命的活力。 约翰的作品不仅对自己已形成的风格提出新的挑战,同时,从不遵守许多学院派艺术家形成的程序化的表现手法和既定的规则,他的作品始终流露出深刻的抽象造型语汇。虽然泥土一直是他表现心灵世界的最完美的融合点,但他从不放弃泥土与其他材质结合的可能性与潜在能力,约翰升华了艺术观念与材质之间的对话,同时展现的是这个世界内在的联系,评论 John Stevenson is a well-known American potter and educator. He was Dean of the School of the Arts at the University of Michigan, and completed bachelors, masters and doctorates from the Kellbrush Arts Institute and the Cleveland Institute of the Arts. Throughout his 40-year career in art, John’s work is full of challenges and vitality, regardless of his age. John’s work not only posed new challenges to the style that he had formed, but at the same time, he never abided by the procedural expressions and established rules formed by many academic artists. His works always showed profound abstract stylistic vocabulary. Although the soil has always been his perfect fusion of the spiritual world, he never abandons the possibility and potential ability of the earth to be combined with other materials. John sublimated the dialogue between artistic concepts and materials and at the same time showed the world Internal contact, comment