Modernforms.co.uk Blog Pol Chambost - master of abstraction

One of the rising stars of the midcentury ceramic canon is French artist Pol Chambost 1906-1983. Trained as a sculptor, his understanding of form, light and shade is demonstrated in his ceramics which he began to handbuild in the 1930s, but by the 1950s he had begun to produce vessels in series from moulds, distinctive in form and colour. Never one to shy away from bold tones, Chambost used lime greens, electric blues, pinks, and of course the monochrome black and white, typical of the period wh [...]