Tessellations
A pattern of repeating shapes that covers an entire surface with no gaps.
What is a tessellation?
A piece of clay rolled flat and cut into shapes which are assembled into sculptures.
What is a slab?
Famous 20th Century painter and sculpture who founded cubism.
Artwork showing the face, head, and shoulders of a person.
What is a portrait?
Where artwork and portfolios are stored.
What is the 8th Grade Drawer?
A color scheme of two colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are Complementary Colors?
Scratching into clay to attach two pieces securely together.
What is scoring?
A type of abstract art that looks like cut up bits of paper glued together.
What is Cubism?
Artwork showing the face, head, and shoulders of the artist who made it.
What is a Self-Portrait?
Where wet artwork is stored.
What is the drying rack?
This artist is known for creating optical illusions and inventing the tessellation.
Who is M.C. Escher?
Pattern or artwork that is inspired by nature.
What is organic?
Picasso's artistic period that showed the sadness he felt for the death of his friend.
What is the Blue Period?
A style of art that is based on something real but looks different.
What is Abstract?
True or False: I can score lower than a C on a project I have finished and turned in.
What is false?
A technique used to create a tessellation where a shape is cut-out on one side and taped onto the opposite side.
What is translation?
Pattern or artwork inspired by shapes.
What is geometric?
Picasso's artistic period that showed the joy he felt when meeting his future wife.
What is the Rose Period?
A style of art that is based on real life and looks very close to real life.
What is Realism?
The intro level art course for high schoolers.
What is Art Foundations?
A technique used to create a tessellation where a shape is cut-out on one side and turned around the corner to the next side.
What is rotation?
To smooth out cracks in clay and join two pieces together without showing a seam.
What is blend?
The painting of a Spanish town bombed during the Spanish Civil War which caused terrible civilian casualties.
Checking one part of a drawing with another part of the drawing to make sure details are the right size.
What is proportion?
This is the average temperature the kiln reaches when Ms. Jushka fires our ceramic projects.
What is 2,000 degrees Farenhite?