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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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artist enhanced
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A term used to describe prints to which an artist has added color or washes after the piece has been printed.
art brut
Arts & crafts; Fine art
French for "raw art", the art of children and outsiders (naive artists and the mentally ill); actually, anyone not producing art for profit or recognition.
albumen print
Arts & crafts; Fine art
This printing process is used in photography printing processes. Egg whites are used in the emulsion.
alla prima
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The method of oil painting in which the desired effects of the final painting are achieved in the first application of paint as opposed to the technique of covering the canvas in ...
analogous colors
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Any set of three or five colors that are closely related in hue(s). They are usually adjacent (next) to each other on the color wheel.
applied art
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The use of the principles and elements of design to create functional pieces of works of art.
approximate symmetry
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The use of forms which are similar on either side of a central axis. They may give a feeling of the exactness or equal relationship but ar sufficiently varied to prevent visual ...
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