Arts & crafts

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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Gender

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The socially constructed identity assigned to a person as a result of their sex.

Geometric

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Resembling or using the simple rectilinear or curvilinear lines used in geometry.Resembling or using the simple rectilinear or curvilinear lines used in geometry.

Globalization

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The transformation of a local or regional phenomenon into a global one.

Gouache

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An opaque watercolor paint; a painting produced with such paint.

Happening

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A performance, event, or situation considered as art, especially those initiated by the artists group Fluxus in the early 1960s. Such events are often planned, but involve ...

Harlem

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York City. In the 1920s and 1930s, the area was epicenter of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual movement in which arts, ...