Kaunas Art School ceramies studio curriculum influence on the development of Lithuanien profesional ceramies

Keramikos studijos įsteigimas Kauno meno mokykloje padėjo pamatus, ant kurių buvo pradėta kurti nacionalinė keramikos mokykla. Šios studijos mokymo programa, kurios esmę sudarė naujas taikomosios dailės reikšmės supratimas, jos estetinės vertės iškėlimas, funkcionalumo ir dekoratyvumo pusiausvyros pabrėžimas, nepraranda savo aktualumo iki šių dienų ir yra atsvaros taškas skirtingų kartų menininkų kūryboje.The founding of the ceramics studio in Kaunas School of Art laid the base from which a national school of ceramics began to be created. The ceramics studio curriculum, the essence of which consisted of a new understanding of the nature of applied art and its aesthetic criteria, has lost nоnе of its urgency and is the counterweight in the creation of artists of different generations. The beginning of professional Lithuanian ceramics is related to the Kaunas Art School, whose ceramics studio played an important role in the history of Lithuanian applied art. The majority of its students successfully formed the creative basis of a professional ceramies that marked the Lithuanian style; one founded upon functionality, a laconicism of form and decor, and the preservation of the traditions of folklore trade. The ceramics studio was opened in 1931. The qualified ceramicist technologist P. Brazdžius was assigned to manage it, and in 1934 the management of the school invited the painter-ceramicist L. Strolis to manage the artistic part of the studio. L. Strolis had been studying in Paris and was well acquainted with the tendencies of modern applied art and its most recent achievements, and he attempted to apply his skills in Lithuania without prejudice to the principles of national art and the preservation of the best traditions of the folklore trade. L. Strolis prepared the curriculum for all the stages of study, starting with the teaching of the classical basics of ceramies up to more difficult tasks in both an artistic and trade sense. The main basis of the curriculum, which stimulated the trends of the trade's traditions and its modes of artistic expression, determined that the works of the studio's students gained several acknowledgements in world art and technical exhibitions. This curriculum had a big influence upon the entire pleiad of Lithuanian ceramicists, who were at that time in the process of forming the national school of ceramics