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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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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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