Usage Note
Tonarbeit refers to a handmade object or artwork formed in unfired or fired clay, used both in school art classes and in professional ceramics studios. It differs from Keramik in emphasising the making process over the final fired product.
Examples
"Die Schüler präsentierten ihre Tonarbeiten stolz in der Jahresausstellung der Kunstklasse."
Natural Translation
The pupils proudly presented their clay works at the art class's annual exhibition.
Literal Translation
The pupils presented their clay-works proudly in the annual-exhibition of the art-class.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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