DECORATIVE CERAMICS AS A BRANCH OF MODERN ART

The article examines decorative arts as a type of visual arts that focuses on works of art creation, with the aim of decorating and giving them aesthetic appeal, as well as objects of a purely exhibition nature. Decorative ceramics are divided into the following types: exterior, interior, and exhibition, and have two directions of development: traditional and academic. Modern Ukrainian decorative ceramics is characterized as an essential branch of decorative arts that developed based on millennial traditions and has its territorial features. It has been found that the technique of making modern decorative ceramics can be divided into forming and decorating. Traditional decorative ceramics are formed by the method of sculpting by hand and on the potter’s wheel. Academic ceramics have broader possibilities of formation, such as sculpting, pottery, pressing or casting in plaster molds, layer formation, and 3D printing. The decoration of modern decorative ceramics is quite diverse, but the traditional techniques remain unchanged. They are engobe, ceremony, pasting, smearing with water. For academic decorative ceramics, a variety of decoration methods, both traditional and experimental, are used. The methods are the following: engobing, etching, pasting, coating with water, painting with metal oxides, painting with metal salts, painting under watercolor paints, painting over watercolor paints, painting with precious metal products and chandeliers It has been found that the artists do not limit their possibilities in academic ceramics. They are not bound by traditional decoration methods. Artists can do whatever they fantasize about, while in traditional ceramics, they must stick to regional features in the methods of decoration and formation.