Description
Jose Arellano Castelló (1921-1997) Spanish Mid century modern art pottery vase.<br>8 5/8" tall x 7.25" wide with no cracks, chips, crazing, or restorations. Glazed<br>over pre production chip on footrim.<br><br>Jose Arellano Castelló (1921-1997) was a potter and ceramist Spanish , creator<br>of the seal Ceramistas Arellano in the field of oscense craft .<br>Heir to a pottery tradition of Moorish origin over 300 years old, he trained in<br>the family workshop, until in 1968, encouraged by the ethnographer Josep Llorens<br>i Artigas , he abandoned traditional pottery to train -with his daughter Carmen<br>and his Comrade Joaquín Javierre Rosel- the 'Arellano group', which in 1976 was<br>recognized with the National Ceramics Prize, and which at the beginning of the<br>1980s would sign the monument to «les dones de faldetes», donated to the Fraga<br>city council and which has presided over the town hall square since April 23,<br>1982 (the sculpture represents the popular Fragatina woman in typical costume<br>and with two jugs, in homage to her daily task of fetching water from the Cinca<br>River ).<br>Monument to «les dones de faldetes», in Fraga.<br>After his death in 1997, his native municipality awarded him the Medal of the<br>City of Fraga and gave his name to the street where he lived.<br>isshelf
