Ceramic art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Etruscan: Diomedes and Polyxena, from the Etruscan amphora of the Pontic group, c. 540-530 BCE - From Vulci Venus of Dolní Věstonice, before 25,000 BCE Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. Ceramic art is one of the arts, particularly the visual arts. While some ceramics are considered fine art, some are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art objects. Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay, shaped and subjected to heat, and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way. In modern ceramic engineering usage, ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. There is a long history of ceramic art in almost all developed cultures, and often ceramic objects are all the artistic evidence left from vanished cultures, like that of the Nok in Africa over 2,000 years ago. Elements of ceramic art, upon which different degrees of emphasis have been placed at different times, are the shape of the object, its decoration by painting, carving and other methods, and the glazing found on most ceramics.
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