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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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Impressionism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A 19th-century art movement, associated especially with French artists, whose works are characterized by relatively small, thin, visible brushstrokes that coalesce to form a ...
Inclined plane
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A flat slanting surface, connecting a lower level to a higher level. Examples include slides, ramps, and slopes.
Industrial design
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A field of design concerned with the aesthetics, form, functionality, and production of manufactured consumer objects.
Irony
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An expression or statement in language or imagery that signifies its own opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Biomorphic
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Derived from the Greek words bios (life) and morphe (form), a term referring to abstract forms or images that evoke associations with living forms such as plants and the human ...
Body language
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The gestures, facial expression, and postures that convey a person's physical, mental, or emotional state.
Bourgeois
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A person whose political, economic, and social values are believed to be determined mainly by concern for material wealth and conventional respectability (noun). Characteristic of ...
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