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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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Fauvism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The style of painting practiced by les Fauves (French for “wild beasts”) in the early 20th century, associated especially with Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose works ...
Feminism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The belief in and advocacy for equal legal and social rights and conditions for women.
Figurative
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
Film still
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A photograph taken during the production of a film that shows a particular moment or scene. These photographs are often used as advertisements or posters for the film.
Foreground
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The area of an image—usually a photograph, drawing, or painting—that appears closest to the viewer.
Framing
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The method by which information is included or excluded from a photograph. A photographer frames an image when he or she points a camera at a subject.
Free association
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A technique developed by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to help discover ideas and associations that a patient had developed, initially, at a subconscious level.
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