Arts & crafts

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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Minimalism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An artistic movement of the 1960s in which artists produced pared-down three-dimensional objects devoid of representational content. Their new vocabulary of simplified, geometric ...

Mood

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A state of mind or emotion, a pervading impression.

Motif

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A distinctive and often recurring feature in a composition.

Multiple

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A term for small-scale, three-dimensional works conceived by artists, and often produced commercially, in relatively large editions.

Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A representative style of art that was developed in the 1920s in Germany by artists including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz. Artworks in this style were often satirical ...

Nomadism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The way of life of people who have no permanent home but move from one location to another, often following the seasons, trade routes, or food supplies.