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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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Hegemony
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The political, economical, or ideological dominance of one group or nation over another.
Hinduism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A major world religion originating in India. Hinduism is characterized by the beliefs in one absolute being, who has multiple manifestations, reincarnation; and karma, or the idea ...
Hieroglyphics
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A pictographic communication system, closely associated with the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are stylized, recognizable pictures of the things and ideas ...
Horizon line
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A line in works of art that usually shows where land or water converges with the sky.
Iconoclasm
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The doctrine or practice of attacking settled beliefs or institutions.
Iconography
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Subject matter in visual art, often adhering to particular conventions of artistic representation, and imbued with symbolic meanings.
Impasto
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An Italian word for “paste” or “mixture”, used to describe a painting technique where paint (usually oil) is thickly laid on a surface, so that the texture of brush- or ...
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