Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANADOLU UNIVERSITESI SANAT & TASARIM DERGISI-ANADOLU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN, cilt.6, sa.6, ss.202-210, 2014 (ESCI)
Organic connection established by traditional style and form has a great importance of its reflection on works in terms of art and artist. The artist who brings past into the present offers a chance to the viewer to be the witness of history. Contemporary works which have been produced in plastic arts such as painting, sculpture and ceramics and that have an interaction with traditional expression play roles as means of understanding today. 'Die pattern of tree of life which has been used both symbolically and decoratively from past to present appears a traditional figure in contemporary works. Within the extent of our research, when the symbolic meanings and forms of the tree of life are observed it is seen that it varies from culture to culture. In this variety, the tree of life in Metepec ceramics in Mexico comes to the foreground. In this context, the contemporary ceramics artists that produce in Metepec ceramics centre claim their traditional art with the trees of life that they form with their own styles and carry this field of art one step further to a contemporary dimension. In our research which is supported as a scientific research project by Anadolu University, the examples of ceramics trees of life produced in Metepec ceramics centre are analyzed stylistically and conceptually.