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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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Ornamentation
Arts & crafts; Modern art
Accessories, decoration, adornment, or details that have been applied to an object or structure to beautify its appearance.
Papier-collé
Arts & crafts; Modern art
French for “glued paper,” a collage technique using cut-and-pasted papers.
Papier-mâché
Arts & crafts; Modern art
French for “chewed-up paper,” a technique for creating three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture, from pulped or pasted paper and binders such as glue or plaster.
Performance art
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A term that emerged in the 1960s to describe a diverse range of live presentations by artists.
Photocollage
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A collage work that includes cut- or torn-and-pasted photographs or photographic reproductions.
Photojournalism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A type of journalism that uses photographs to tell a news story.
Photostat
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A machine that makes quick duplicate positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper. Also, the resulting copies.
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