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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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Typography
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The art and technique of designing and/or arranging type letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, and of printing from them.
Turpentine burn
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A turpentine burn is made by soaking a rag in solvent and scrubbing the canvas directly. This technique removes paint and leaves a stain on the canvas.
Triptych
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A work of art consisting of three parts, usually hinged together.
Tone
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The lightness or darkness of a color. In painting, a color plus gray.
Tension
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The state of being stretched or strained; in construction, the level of tautness when a load is applied to a structure.
Tenement
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An urban dwelling made up of several apartments, often overcrowded and located in economically depressed sections of a city.
Direct positive
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A photographic term referring to a positive image made directly by exposure to light and by development without the use of a negative. In a direct positive print an image is ...
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