Frames Flashcards
Post Modern
- Appropriation
- New technology
- Challenges tradition
- Humor, satire, irony
- Blue colour
Structural frame
- How the art-work was made
- Composition
- Materials and techniques used
- Symbols, elements e.g line, colour, texture
- Orange colour
Cultural
- World, time, and place
Earthenware
Pottery, usually terracotta in colour that has 5% porosity.
Bisqueware
Pottery ware that receives only one firing and no glaze.
Relief
A raised surface that stands out from the background.
Bisque
Green ware pottery slowly fired to about 900c
Carve
To cut into something,mouse or incise.
Burnish
To polish clay using a stone or spoon.
Coils
Joined rolls of clay (snakes) are stacked on top of each other
Skrinkage
The decrease in size of clay work caused by drying or firing.
Fire
Hardening process of intense heat that converts clay to ceramics
Greenware
Ceramic object that has been shaped and dried, but not yet fired.
Glaze
Glass hard coating on bisque ware that decorates and makes waterproof.
Oxides
Metallic oxides used to colour glazes
Leather hard
The condition of raw clay when almost all the moisture has left it.
Kidney
Flexible smoothing tool shaped like a kidney
Slip
Creamy solution from clay mixed with water and used to decorate.
Porous
The ability to allow moisture to pass through clay without cracking.
What is a Toothbrush used for?
To scratch clay before it is joined with slurry
What is an extruder used for?
Used to make coils of varied thicknesses.
Art practise questions…
Where do they work? What materials do they use? What time period did they work? What does their art communicate to the audience? Why do they do art?
Appropriation.
An existing idea or artwork and use it in a new way
Parody
A humorous imitation of something
Usually involving extravasation
