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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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Oswaldo Vigas

Arts & crafts; Modern art

He was born on August 4th, 1926 (Valencia, Venezuela) In 1941 he moved to Guacara, locality in which he made his first paintings. His earliest known work is important ...

Manuel Cabré

Arts & crafts; Modern art

He born on January 25, 1890. (Barcelona, Spain) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas where he received lessons Herrera Toro and Mauri. He was a pupil of his father ...

Armando Reverón

Arts & crafts; Modern art

He was born on May 10th, 1889 (Caracas, Venezuela). His work inspired by the beauty of the sea and the female nude, is recognized and valued in the country and Latin America to ...

Carlos Cruz Diez

Arts & crafts; Modern art

He born on August 17th, 1932 (Caracas, Venezuela) It is considered the most representative of the Venezuelan “Kinetic art”. From small felt penchant for color and visual arts. ...

David Hockney

Arts & crafts; Modern art

English painter, draftsman, printmaker and photographer born in Bradford, UK in 1937. He was an important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960's.

Andy Warhol

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Andy Warhol was a leading pop artist from the United States. He has created many art works that are not only one-of-a-kind back in the 1960s but are still highly sought-after ...

Campbell's Soup Cans

Arts & crafts; Modern art

It is an art work created by Andy Warhol in 1962. Consisting of 32 canvases of soup cans of Campbell’s Soup Company and displayed in a way similar to how those soup cans were ...