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Arts & crafts
Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.
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Vincent van Gogh
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
Vincent Willem van Gogh is a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who only became famous after his death. Van Gogh is best-known for his works that use bold strokes annd swirls with ...
The Mona Lisa
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
The Mona Lisa is widely recognized as one of the most famous paintings in the history of art. It is a half-length portrait of a seated woman painted in oil by Leonardo da Vinci ...
Leonardo da Vinci
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
Leonardo da Vinci is a master dabbled in many mediums such as painting, architecture, sculpture, and engineering. His best-known works include the Mona Lisa (1503-1506) and The ...
academy board
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
A type of cardboard sheet used as a support for painting, especially in oils.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
Bosch's most famous and unconventional picture, The Garden of Earthly Delights was painted between 1490 and 1510. The oil painting is on three panels, with two side pannels ...
fugitive pigment
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
Fugitive pigment is a phrase used to describe a pigment's impermanence and tendency to fade or change colour under the influence of natural effects such as sunlight, heat, water, ...
grass muller
Arts & crafts; Oil painting
A glass muller is needed when grinding paint by hand and to coat the dry pigment in medium. The base of the muller has been sandblasted to form a slight roughness and is usually ...
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