Terms
What is "slip"?
This Dutch artist is famous for his bright sunflowers and a painting of 'Starry Night.' He often used thick, swirling brushstrokes and had a difficult life.
Vincent van Gogh
Handbuilding
Using your hands to shape clay and build for sculpture
A gift from France, this iconic statue welcomes visitors to New York Harbor and is a symbol of freedom and democracy.
Statue of Liberty
What is "glaze"?
A mixture of glass, pigment, and minerals used to cover the ceramic piece in a shiny gloss.
An Italian artist and inventor of the Renaissance period, he painted the famous 'Mona Lisa' and also created drawings of flying machines and anatomy.
Leonardo da Vinci
Slip + Score
cross hatching on the clay in order to attach separate pieces with slip
Standing 98 feet tall, this statue of Jesus Christ overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from atop Mount Corcovado.
Christ the Redeemer
What is "bisque"?
Clay that has been fired once in the kiln
Known as the father of abstract art, this Russian artist used shapes, lines, and colors to create paintings like 'Composition VII,' which have no recognizable subject.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky
Coil
rolling the clay like a log to create a cylindrical strip to use for building.
This massive monument in South Dakota features the faces of four U.S. presidents carved into a granite mountain.
Mount Rushmore
What is "greenware"?
Unfired clay pieces
This Spanish artist created a new style called Cubism, where objects and faces are shown from many angles at once.
Pablo Picasso
Paper-Mache
A technique for coating a sculpture in a wet paper mixture for an even, paintable surface.
These large stone statues with elongated faces, called Moai, were created by the Rapa Nui people on this remote island in the Pacific.
Easter Island
a process that transforms a substance fully or partially into glass or non-crystalline solid through heat.
An American artist known for her large paintings of flowers and landscapes inspired by the desert, she was one of the most important modern artists in the U.S.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Dip-Glazing
A liquid glaze that you prepare to dip the entire clay piece into in order to coat the surface evenly
This ancient monument in Giza, Egypt, features a lion’s body with a human head and is one of the oldest and largest statues in the world.
Great Sphinx of Giza