Making beauty: Hosono Hitomi
This series celebrates the work of living Japanese artists and craftspeople. Hosono Hitomi makes extraordinary, beautiful ceramic works and her ‘Large Feather Leaves Bowl’ is a highlight of the Museum’s Japanese collection. She painstakingly attached 1,000 individual leaves, the entire process taking one year to complete. The leaves appear to be gently rustling in the wind.
The film captures the process of creation and Hitomi describes how she draws on memories of her mother’s garden and family rice fields in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, as well as her knowledge of nature in London, where she now lives. Hitomi graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, going on to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and then at London’s Royal College of Art.
This film series has been produced with the support of JTI.
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Hitomi's art is very hopeful. Often when leaves or flowers are used in art there is a reminder that the objects, like flowers, could wilt or die. She uses natural themes not like they were picked and staged, but like they are currently growing. Love it.
Breathtaking porcelaine! As an old potter way back when, I'm really intrigued by her technique, working with such delicate pieces over such a long time, I'm so curious how she manages to keep the piece at a balanced humidity to keep working at keep the work from cracking, and understand why the drying time would have to be so very slow. Also the investment made in just one piece is so BRAVE, as you never can be sure with ceramics, if it will behave the way you hope it will. The expression of her work is so delicate and monumental at the same time, so organic yet technical, she's truly a master ceramicist and very unique at that. Thank you for sharing! ❤🙏
Absolutely astounding work. Inspiring. Her work rightly belongs amongst the masters in that collection.
Hitomi Hosono is incredibly talented and an exceptional contemporary ceramics artist. Love the Three-dimensional aspect of her works.
とにかく美しい。美しいとはこういうものだと教えてくれる。作り物ではない生物の美しさは何物にも代え難い。
I've never seen anything even close to this! Absolutely breathtaking!
Absolutely breathtaking, exquisite, stunning and left handed WOWSA!!! 🤎🤍🧡 Hosono Hitomi Nga mihi 👍🏽 The British Museum thank you.
I'm speechless at the beauty. Just stunning.
So that is nothing short of exquisite! But am I the only one thinking what a nightmare it would be to dust?
Ms Hitomi, your work is absolutely beautiful and deserves to be exhibited in such a famous place. You are such a very skilled craftswoman. Well done.
It's so wonderful to feel stunned _in a good way_ these days!
I wish all the people in this world who feel hatred and aggression, who wage war on people from other places, who put profit and prestige above everything else would stop, take a deep breath, look inside themselves and allow themselves to really see work like this. I feel a great upwelling of love and appreciation for not only the creator of such wildly beautiful objects but also for the other cultures and people of the world. To see these beautiful things described by the person who made them along with their hopes for them, makes feelings like hatred, jealousy, greed seem so dark and evil. Hitomi's art breeds love inside me. I appreciate her. I hope this love can spread.
@DAYBROK3
5 ай бұрын
they are too scared
STUNNING
I gasped. Wow and Wow. duh. 🌟
Absolute art; glorious, awe-imspiring.
This is what modern art should be. Novel, contemporary idea executed with high technique, passion, attention to detail. Not just some guy with crazy idea slapping banana on the wall. Smh. That's why alot of people don't take modern arts seriously, they lack effort.
@helenamcginty4920
4 ай бұрын
There are those who would disagree. I dont get the point of the banana stuff I must admit but was Vermeer any less an artist because he used a camera obscura? My drawing tutor at art school said that he could teach a monkey to draw, an artist knows where to put the line, the colour etc. The technique is a skill. But so is painting decorating. But the latter is not art.
This is so beautiful - thank you very much for posting!
Amazing ❤
Absolutely amazing!
WOW Awe inspiring work. Just sheer wonder. Thank you for showing it to us. :)
These pieces are so beautiful! I've done a lot of pottery, but nothing so delicate and complicated.
@petrfrizen6078
6 жыл бұрын
Self castigation is not really propitious for (translational development of) creativity.
@AluminumDragonRawr
6 жыл бұрын
I'm just admiring her work. I usually don't take on projects with so much detail because keeping the clay at the right level of moisture so it doesn't crack can be hard.
@petrfrizen6078
6 жыл бұрын
I see... The art is not easy...
Incredible & heartfelt work ! ❤
Beautiful work!
this is so inspiring
Gorgeous.
I saw this in person at the British Museum when I went there for the Hokusai exhibition, and I remember thinking- how the hell do you transport such a delicate, fragile piece like this?!
Exquisite!
Stunning.
If I would try to defined my perception of Hosono art, I attempt to say : it's at the same time exception and evident. And after that, I've not said the smallest part of the emotion I've feld facing the peace I' feel observing the mouvment of those multitud of leaves and flowers, for eternity fixed and so mobil to my eyes. Words missed to me, as a french, to describe what I feel. But it's a try...
Very interesting and beautiful… airborne…
Muchas grácias !!
wow!
6:07 "Being a white porcelain , No! that's not a Japanese material even, I think that porcelain is European..." Oh dear, don't tell that to the Kakiemon kiln, making the finest Japanese porcelain for over 400 years and hugely popular in 17th century Europe. Porcelain was developed initially in China and its qualities were much admired in Europe which led to great efforts to replicate the material. So much for the sophisticated insights of specialist dealers with aesthetic pretensions.
@shenanigans3710
4 жыл бұрын
I think he means that she's using imported European porcelain, not local Japanese stuff. I'm pretty sure he'd know that porcelain was invented in Asia.
@rockoleenchz
2 жыл бұрын
Porcelain is naturally occurring in China. Bone China is European. Natural clays from Japan contain significant amounts of iron and ochre.
@keffinsg
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you are right about those pretensions. I am glad to see I am not the only one who felt like smacking him in the head with a rolled up art magazine.
Just watching this was like doing a hundred hours of TaiChi
Well thats me off to the british museum
Unreal
Spectaculaires oeuvres d'art exécutées par un Trésor National du Japon
Very beautiful. I am surprised there is no mention of parallels to ancient Japanese Jomon flame pots.
@giovannilee2602
4 ай бұрын
You right ! Also there is a funny comments by the white man who says that porcelain was a European thing ( what an absurdity ) … but the attention to details was Japanese . I might have missed some bits …😢
otherworldly
one whole year to make?! Wow! i can just imagine the cost...at the minimum you’d pay for all the man-hours that went into it
🙏
Left handed 👍
The dust, though.
Ahh... another Japanese artistry at its pinnacle!!! There is definitely something about their Kaizen principle (continues improvement) which makes it possible for Japanese people to achieve this kind of perfection. You name a artistry, you will find a Japanese guy who will take it to God level.
@Sheepdog1314
5 ай бұрын
yeah...a Japanese guy....
She says the Japanese equivalent of "um" a lot: "ano"
@Sheepdog1314
5 ай бұрын
....and?
🤍🌿🌿🌿🤍
to the guy in the clip who said porcelain was european. no it started in china, then went to korea and japan, europe was extremely late to the game