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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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demoscene
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A computer art culture that creates 'demos' - audiovisual productions that are run in real-time on computer hardware. The scene was originally tied to the cracker community, where ...
Sleeping Beauty Exhibit
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A 2012 summer art exhibit at the central gallery of the National Art Museum of Ukraine that featured men kissing sleeping women to try to awaken them. Each qualified male suitor ...
upcycle
Apparel; Coats & jackets
The process of converting waste or discarded products into new products with higher quality and new usage. Reworking junk materials into new and improved products. Often ...
eco-chic
Weddings; Coats & jackets
Environmentally-friendly and ethical design that does not sacrifice quality or style. Both \'green\' and stylish. A combination of trendiness and environment.
assemblage
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Term coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to describe a type of work made from fragments of natural or preformed materials, such as household debris.
arts and crafts movement
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A social and aesthetic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that championed good designed and craftsmanship at a time of increasing mechanization and mass ...
automatism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Method of producing paintings or drawings in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the movements of the hand, allowing the unconscious mind to take over.
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