YU Hsiao-hao, Gray-glazed Jar With Fish Print Decoration @ Ravenel Autumn Auction 2004, Lot 203

EXHIBITED:

Creating from Tradition - Contemporary Ceramics exhibition, National palace Museum, Taipei, 1986

ILLUSTRATED:

Creating from Tradition - Contemporary Ceramics exhibition, National palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, color illustration, p. 7

Culture Property Series 44 - Pottery, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei, 1989, p. 62

Catalogue Note:

Grey Mat Glaze - Yu Hsiao-hao Adept in using fish patterns as the decorations on his ceramics, Yu Hsiao-hao adopts a highly serious attitude towards the art of pottery making. Depth in substance and manifestations of an individually unique style are heavily stressed in his works. Merging both traditional and innovative concepts, works with unsophisticated simplicity, honest dignity and distinctive appeal are customarily created using a grey mat glaze, which undergoes flaming at high temperatures of 1300℃ to form glazes in colours such as nut brown, dark green, veneda and pale white. Through these, the rich native appeal inherent in him is conveyed, transmitting a sense of intimacy. Yu believes that works of pottery are not detachable from life; they must be born and accumulated of common folk culture before they can arouse widespread feelings of sympathy in the mass community and only then can they establish a foothold in everyday living.