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Andalusia's New Golden Pottery |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Tor Eigeland |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,081 Words, 12,800 Characters |
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Jun’s palace is called Pabellón de las Artes. And what is the connection?
We’ll have to enter Jun’s Pavilion of the Arts to find out.
A massive iron door slides open easily, and we enter a bright, spacious museum that, in the distance, curves to the left, leaving the last part out of sight.
Lining the walls and filling the floor-space are more than a hundred ceramic vases, jars, jugs, plates, oil lamps and chests, from the gigantic to the diminutive. Gracefully shaped, colored and gilded, decorated with intricate geometric, floral and calligraphic designs, all are in the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century style of the Nasrid period when the Alhambra was built: the last 200 years of Muslim rule, when the arts in southern Spain flourished as never before.
Anyone with an interest i...
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... to create. That’s what I was born to do. I need time to express what I have to express.” As a final word, Jiménez says, “I hope others lean on what I have humbly done and move ahead.”
This article appeared on pages 2-9 of the January/February 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World, and has been reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2007 Saudi Aramco Services. All Rights Reserved.
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