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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
"CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CRAFTS"
Hall 5
 Deformation.
The Beauty of Unevenness
Another important characteristic of Japanese crafts is the
intentional introduction of deformation in the creation of bowls and the
like. By destroying perfect shapes such as circles or squares, a form is
revealed in which the beauty hidden behind the perfect, the beauty that
cannot be breached through reason, is apparent. In this way a special
Japanese artistic insight, which is not accessible via rational thought
of the Western type, is expressed. Deformation as an expression of
beauty can often be seen in tea utensils. Nowadays, however, such
expression is not limited to tea utensils. More general displays of
deformation can be found in crafts created as a means of self-expression
by the artist.
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