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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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Classicism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the art of ancient Greece and Rome.

Cold War

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The period of protracted conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies that lasted from the late 1940s through the 1980s.

Collage

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The technique and resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued to a supporting surface.

Color Field paintings

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Paintings of large areas of color, typically with no strong contrasts of tone or obvious focus of attention.

Column

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A decorative or structural feature, most often composed of stone, typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft.

Combine

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The technique of affixing cast-off items to a traditional support, like a canvas.

Constructivism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Developed by the Russian avant-garde at the time of the October Revolution of 1917, the goal of this idealistic movement was to make art universally understandable and essential ...