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Thorvald Bindesbøll started designing ceramics in 1883, and today he is mainly famous for his works in this field, despite the fact that he also worked as a furniture designer and architect. The two beautiful pots in the collection of Vejen Art Museum are typical of Bindesbølls decorative style. The ornamentation is a sort of abstract, assymmetrical plant motif, energetic and spontaneous in style. These forms are known as arabesque, and they were the central forms in the symbolist period. Though it looks spontaneous, Bindesbøll was a thorough planner and he sketched out his decorations with great care. He was inspired by the Japanese ceramics, which became fashionable in the late 1900s, but he combined its calligraphic ornamentation with a forcefulness and tension which was uniquely his own. Kristine Hoff |
