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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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Documentary photography
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A genre of photography that aims to objectively chronicle a subject or event.
Drypoint
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A type of intaglio printmaking process that involves using an abrasive or sharp-pointed tool to scratch lines into the surface of a metal plate. The term may also refer to the ...
Earthwork
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Artistic manipulation of the natural landscape, typically though not exclusively enacted on a large scale.
École des Beaux-Arts
Arts & crafts; Modern art
French for “school of fine art,” a term for art schools that advance a classical approach to art, design, and literature based on ancient Greek or Roman forms.
Embroidery
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The craft of decorating fabric or other materials with thread or yarn using a needle.
Emulsion
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A combination of two or more liquids that do not blend easily on their own, such as oil and water. For example, painters can use egg yolk to emulsify oil paint and water.
Enamel
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A type of paint made from very fine pigments and resin that form a glossy surface. Also, the application of this paint to a material in order to create a smooth and glossy ...
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