Ceramics 1 Final Exam Review 2016

Landscape Mug 1.An outdoor scene viewed from far away is called a __________________________________. 2.The line where the sky meets the ground is called the ________________________________. 3.What is alto relief? ___________________________________________________________ 4.What is bas relief? ___________________________________________________________ 5.What is sunken relief? ________________________________________________________ 6.What three things did your mug have to have? ____________________________________ 7.How did you get the right shape for your mug? ____________________________________ 8.What three things did you have to consider when planning the landscape for your mug? ___________________________________________________________________________ low relief horizon line high relief landscape Relief carved into the clay body Handle, horizon line, landscape Template A clear area for your handle, a sculpture-free area to drink from, making sure the landscape was continuous

Sgraffito Boxes (9) _____________ is a painting technique in which a surface layer of colored slip is (10)_____________away to expose the color of the clay underneath. Sgraffito pottery was first produced by (11)_____________ potters during the Middle Ages. In pieces with sgraffito decoration, the surface treatment (12)_____________ with the clay body. Contrast can be used in a work of art to direct the viewer’s (13)_____________ to a particular part of the piece or to create a strong pattern or (14)_____________. sgraffito scratched Islamic contrasts attention rhythm

Wind Chimes 15. Movement – __________________________________________________________________ 16. Nesting - __________________________________________________________________ 17. Glaze - __________________________________________________________________ Your wind chimes were supposed to have _______________ pinch pots, each with a ___________________ poked through the center. 20. How were you supposed to ensure that your wind chime pinch pots nested? __________________________________________________________________ The look of feeling of action in a work of art Objects that fit within one another Ceramic color that goes on after clay has been fired once 4 hole Make 4 balls of clay, each bigger than the one before it, then turn them into pinch pots.

Man vs. Nature Sculpture 21. Sculpture – ______________________________________________________________ 22. Functional – ______________________________________________________________ 23. Non-functional – ______________________________________________________________ 24. What was the subject matter of your sculpture? ______________________________________________________________ A piece of art that is made by carving or molding clay Has a use or purpose No use – purely decorative A man-made object growing out of a plant

Shoe 25. Sole – ______________________________________________________________ 26. Upper – ______________________________________________________________ 27. Composite Construction - _____________________________________________________________ 28. There was no demo at the middle table for this project because ______________________________________________________________ The flat bottom part of a shoe The fabric portion that that sits on the sole Combining various techniques to create a ceramic piece Because there was no template and you were to devise your own construction plan

Ceramic Art History 29. __________ The name for prehistoric Japanese art 30. __________ World’s oldest known pots 31. __________ World’s oldest clay sculpture 32. __________ Has three figures portraying movement 33. __________ Means “cord pattern” 34. __________ Has drawings of river plants on the outside 35. __________ Features red-figure style pottery 36. __________ Protected an emperor in the afterlife F B A E C C E L

Ceramic Art History 37. ___________ Oldest known ceramic work to capture the idea of human introspection 38. ___________ Ancient Egyptian work 39. ___________ Made elaborate funerary urns 40. ___________ Everyday stoneware from the Song dynasty 41. ___________ Blue decoration with a porcelain body 42. ___________ Produced ceramic work since ___________ Similar to Ming Ware in color and style 44. ___________ G F H K I J D

Ceramic Technique & Vocabulary It’s important to… 45. cover your clay pieces between classes because ___________________________________________________________________ 46. score and slip because ___________________________________________________________________ 47. wedge clay because ___________________________________________________________________ It keeps your clay from drying out It keeps your attachments from falling off It gets rid of air bubbles

Ceramic Technique & Vocabulary It’s important to… 48. wipe bisqueware with a wet sponge because _________________________________________________________________________ 49. avoid using clay pieces that are thicker than your thumb because _________________________________________________________________________ 50. keep the bottom of your piece free of glaze because _________________________________________________________________________ It removes any dust from the surface so that the glaze will stick It might blow up otherwise Otherwise it will stick to the bottom of the kiln

Ceramic Technique & Vocabulary 51. Plastic – ___________________________________________________________________ 52. Leatherhard – ___________________________________________________________________ 53. Greenware – ___________________________________________________________________ 54. Bisqueware – ___________________________________________________________________ 55. Glazeware - ___________________________________________________________________ Soft, pliable, easy to work with. Can recycle. Partially dry. Good for carving, attaching. Can recycle. Totally dry. Really fragile. Can recycle. Fired once. Can NOT recycle. Fired a second time with glaze on it. Can NOT recycle.

Refection & Practical Essay This year, we focused on 10 important rules for creating successful ceramics projects and maintaining a safe and clean studio. Choose five of these rules to discuss in a five paragraph essay. For each rule, name the rule, describe why that rule is important, and describe any unwanted consequences for not following that particular rule. Practical You will be able to choose from the following projects to count as your practical portion below. Sgraffito BoxIdentity MaskCeramic Shoe