Renaissance
This word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom between the 14th and 17th Centuries.
what is the Renaissance
A form of sculpture that has minimal projection from the surface of the medium often gaining the name low relief sculpture.
What is a Bas-Relief
A naturally occurring fine-grain soil containing various minerals that gains plasticity when wet.
What is Clay
The Japanese word for ink painting.
What is Sumi-e
This is made up of three parts. A flux/melter, a refractory/stabilizer, and a glass former.
What is Glaze.
A strong contrast between light and shadow to give volume and depth to figures.
What is Chiaroscuro
These rock carvings are made of pecking directly on the rock surface by using a stone tool and exposing the lighter rock underneath.
What is a Petroglyph
The method used to measure the temperature of clay by seeing when the cone starts to flop over.
What is Cones.
Holding your brush upright and moving the tip of the brush running in the center of the lines.
What is Chokujitsu.
Converting something into glass or a glasslike substance, typically by exposure to heat.
What is Vitrify.
A crucial technique used to create the illusion of depth in a drawing by using vanishing points and converging lines.
What is Linear Perspective
Sunken relief was a bas relief style found in this nation where the relief is cut or “Sunk” into the surface material.
What is Egypt
This is an insulated furnace that clay is baked in.
What is Clay
Brush technique were the tip of the brush is spread out with dried hairs.
What is Warifude.
A Glaze that fires at a Cone of 05 Temp. 1870 to 1880 degrees F.
What is low fire
A subtle blending of colors and tones to create soft edges and a hazy atmosphere, often associated with Leonardo da Vinci.
What is Sufumato
Sculptures that have a higher amount of partition from the surface with deep undercuts making dramatic shading.
What is High Relief
Clay pottery that has a range of moisture in the clay and has not been fired in a Kiln.
What is Greenware
Holding your brush diagonally and moving it sideways, the tip of the brush is pointing one side, and the root of the brush is the other side.
What is Shokuhitzu.
A lower specific gravity when mixing glaze indicates what.
What is a thinner glaze
A More refined drawing, often including detailed composition and anatomy, used as a final plan for a painting.
What is a Modelli
A term to describe a large column of wood or stone that was inscribed to dedicate a special event or person.
What is a Stele
Clay pottery that has been in a low fire kiln and now has no moisture in the clay and has started to vitrify.
What is Bisqueware
The brush technique of placing the brush in darker ink, then wash the tip of the brush in water to make the tip lighter ink.
What is Motoguma
The ratio of the density of two or more substances in a mixture.
What is Specific Gravity
A large scale drawings used to transfer designs onto fresco walls.
What is a Cartoni
A mythical creature of protection in the same category as the sphinx of Egypt that has the body of a lion or bull, with wings, and a human head.
What is a Lamassu
A high fired clay up to cone 10 is non-porous, and pottery can be made extremely thin.
What is Porcelain.
Ink effect technique created by dipping your brush in thinner ink, wiping, and then adding darker ink to the tip of the brush.
What is Sakiguma.
The Optimal Specific gravity for glazes in the classroom should be between these two measurements.
What is 1.3 to 1.7 g/ml