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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).
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 ...
