Art Elements/ Design Principles
Metal Tooling
Origami Mobile
Art History
Clay
100
This Art Element is a mark on a surface that describes a shape or outline. It can create texture and can be thick and thin. Some different types are: actual, implied, vertical, horizontal, diagonal and contour.
What is 'Line'?
100
This refers to the creation of an impression of some kind of design, decoration, lettering or pattern on another surface like paper, cloth, metal and even leather, to make a relief. In regular printing or an engraving, plates are pressed against the surface to leave an imprint.
What is Embossing?
100
This is the Japanese art of paper folding.
What is Origami?
100
This is the most popular and most often folded origami figure.
What is the crane?
100
The final stage of greenware dried to a completely dry state and ready to be fired. In this stage, the clay is very fragile, non-plastic and porous.
What is Bone-dry?
200
This an Art Element that refers to variations in the proportions of objects, lines or shapes.
What is 'Size'?
200
Metal Tooling arrived in Mexico by the necessity to protect the icons of the _____________.
What is the Church?
200
Origami began here in the first or second century.
What is China?
200
These are the first type of Japanese people to fold origami from expensive paper sometime around the 6th century.
What is a monk?
200
A furnace for the firing of ceramics.
What is a Kiln?
300
This is a Design Principle of which is the area that first attracts attention in a composition. This area is more important when compared to the other objects or elements in a composition. This can be by contrast of values, more colors, and placement in the format.
What is the 'Center of Interest'?
300
The tools used to create Metal Tooling.
What is a Stylus?
300
A type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It sometimes consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang.
What is a Mobile?
300
These are a kind of ceremonial origami fold entirely distinct from "origami-tsuki". They are not certificates, but are attached to gifts to express "good wishes".
What is Noshi?
300
A procedure for preparing clay or a clay body by hand: the lump of clay is repeatedly thrown down on a work bench; between each operation the lump is turned and sometimes cut through and rejoined in a different orientation. The object is to disperse the water more uniformly, to remove lamination and to remove air.
What is Wedging?
400
This is a Design Principle that shows feeling of the visual equality in shape, form, value, color, etc. It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial.
What is 'Balance'?
400
This is the Art Element used the most in Metal Tooling that is both tactile and visual that varies in rough, smooth or bumpy.
What is Texture?
400
He is considered the "father of modern origami" because of his creative paperfolding.
Who is Akira Yoshizawa?
400
This artist is well known for splatter painting during the abstract expressionist movement.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
A suspension of clay, clay body or glaze in water.
What is Slip?
500
This is a Design Principle that shows visual flow through the composition. It can be the suggestion of motion in a design as you move from object to object by way of placement and position.
What is 'Directional Movement'?
500
This civilization is thought to be the first to work with gold for Metal Tooling.
What is Egypt.
500
This is Sculpture that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect.
What is Kinetic Sculpture?
500
This artist is best known for his figurative works in the realist style. His artwork is sometimes referred to as “meticulous realism,” a subcategory referring to the artist’s startling attention to detail.
Who is Kent Bellows?
500
A coating that has been matured to the glassy state on a formed ceramic article, or the material or mixture from which the coating is made
What is Glaze?
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