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Modern art

A movement in fine arts (starting from the mid-1800s) in which the styles, attitudes and subject-matter began to differ from those of traditional art.

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Wet-collodion

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A photographic process invented in 1848 by F. Scott Archer, in which a glass plate, coated with light-sensitive collodion emulsion, is placed in a camera, exposed, developed, and varnished for ...

Welding

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A process of joining two pieces of metal together by heating the surfaces to the point of melting and then pressing them together.

Wedge

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An object with two faces meeting sharply at an acute angle, used for raising, holding, or splitting objects, as in a knife or ax.

Viscosity

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The thickness of a liquid. In painting, the viscosity of oil paints is altered by adding a binder (such as linseed oil) or a solvent (such as turpentine).

Viewpoint

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The position from which something is viewed or observed.

Futurism

Arts & crafts; Modern art

An Italian movement in art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, characterized by an aesthetic that glorified the mechanical world, war, and dynamic speed.

Gelatin silver print

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A black-and-white photographic print made by exposing paper, which has been made light-sensitive by a coating of gelatin silver halide emulsion, to artificial or natural light; a photographic process ...

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