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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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Pop art
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A movement composed of initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by references to imagery and products from popular culture, media, ...
Primary color
Arts & crafts; Modern art
One of three base colors (blue, red, or yellow) that can be combined to make a range of colors.
Pulley
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A simple machine that uses grooved wheels and a rope to raise, lower, or move a load. Examples may be found on a flagpole or crane.
Ratio
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The relation between two similar values or objects with respect to the number of times the first contains the second. For example, having twice as much of an item is to have a ...
Rayograph
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A term invented by Man Ray to describe what is conventionally known as a photogram, or photographic print made by placing objects and other elements on photosensitive paper and ...
Readymade
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to describe prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their functional context and elevated to the status of art by the mere ...
Relics
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Body parts or personal belongings of saints and other important figures that are preserved for purposes of commemoration or veneration.
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