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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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Omnigraph
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The object responsible for the transformation of ideas into tangible reality. Originating from the latin term "omni" (meaning 'everything') and the latin root "graph" (meaning 'to ...
School of Athens
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The School of Athens (or Scuola di Atene in Italian) was one of Raphael's commissions in the Stanze di Raffaello in the Vatican. The School of Athens is considered Raphael's ...
American Gothic
Arts & crafts; Modern art
American Gothic was inspired by the Dibble House in Iowa. Wood saw its Gothic architectural style and decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he imagined might ...
Las Meninas
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honor, depicts a room in the Madrid palace of Spain's King Philip IV. The painting is famous for its complexities regarding reality and illusion. ...
The Night Watch
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Rembrandt's painting of a city guard led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq moving out is famous for three reasons: its large size of 11'10" x 14'4", effective utilization of ...
Whistler's Mother
Arts & crafts; Modern art
James McNeill Whistler painted his mother, Anna McNeill Whistler, when the original model failed to come to the appointment. The painting was not well-received when he submitted ...
The Scream
Arts & crafts; Modern art
In a series of paintings reproduced with various media known as Scream, Edvard Munch conveys an extremely anxious and trembling person standing at the fenced edge of a road. The ...
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