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Jean Joseph Marie Carriès was born in 1855 in Lyon. Orphaned at an early age, he was trained in a craft context before joining the Parisian art scene. This dual influence, both artisanal and academic, played a decisive role in shaping his work, which is deeply attached to materiality and manual labor. 

Carriès began his career as a sculptor, his portraits are characterized by an almost dramatic intensity, with strongly modeled, sometimes distorted faces. His portraits are characterized by an almost dramatic intensity, with strongly modeled, sometimes deformed faces, reflecting a search for physiognomy and character rather than idealization. 

From the 1880s onwards, he turned more and more towards ceramics, a discipline in which he has developed an innovative body of work. He is particularly interested in sandstone, he experiments with these materials in sculptural forms and decorative objects. His work is characterized by extreme attention to glazes, textures and firing effects, making the material a central element of artistic expression. 

Stoneware by Carriès often feature thick, irregular, deeply worked surfaces. The glazes, sometimes dark or shaded, accentuate the expressive, almost archaic dimension of his creations. This approach breaks with traditional decorative conventions and inscribes his work in a radical search for materiality. 

Carriès is part of an artistic context marked by an interest in the arts of fire, Japanese art and the revival of the decorative arts. He developed a personal vision in which sculpture and ceramics merged, abolishing the boundaries between major and applied art. His work anticipates some of the twentieth-century research on matter and form. 

Jean Joseph Marie Carriès dies prematurely in 1894. Despite his brief career, he left a singular and profoundly innovative body of work. Today, he is recognized as an essential figure in the revival of artistic ceramics and as a creator who pushed back the expressive limits of sculpture and the decorative arts at the end of the 19th century.