Stages of Clay
Abstract Expressionism
Vocabulary
Color
100

The most stable, hardest stage of clay, coated with glass

What is glaze ware?

100

Artist characterized by an intuitive approach to painting. He is perhaps best known for his iconic variants of black forms on white backgrounds.

Who is Robert Motherwell?

100

A change in value

What is gradient?

100

The three primary colors

What are red, yellow, and blue?
200

The best time to do slab construction or carve

What is leather hard?

200


In 1960 the term Color Field painting was used to describe the work of this artist

Who is Helen Frankenthaler?

200

The difference between the lightest and darkest values

What is constrast?

200

The three secondary colors

What are orange, purple, and green?

300

Potter's Glue

What is slip?

300

By the mid 1940s, this artist introduced his famous 'drip paintings', which represent one of the most original bodies of work of the century, and forever altered the course of American art.  They were also known as action paintings.

Who is Jackson Pollock?

300

The lightness or darkness or something

What is value?
300

A color that is opposite another color on the wheel

What is a compliment?

400

The clay is no longer cool to the touch and is ready to be fired.

What is bone dry?

400

The subject of expressionist paintings

What are feelings?

400

A flat, one sided view of a 3 dimensional object

What is orthographic?

400

A mixture of a secondary and a primary color

What is tertiary? 

500

The best time for pinch construction, stamping and modeling...

What is wet clay?

500

This artist produced works characterized by a sensuous painterly style, her large-scales collages often formed from the artist’s own cut-up paintings and drawings.

Who is Lee Krasner?

500
How warm or cool a color is

What is temperature?

500
The level of how vibrant or dull a color is

What is saturation?

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