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  2. Process art - Wikipedia

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    Abel Azcona's work in Havana.. Process art is an artistic movement where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus; the process of its making is one of the most relevant aspects if not the most important one: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings.

  3. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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    Daguerreotype [note 1] was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process.

  4. Synthetism - Wikipedia

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    The Talisman, by Paul Sérusier, one of the principal works of the Synthetist school. Synthetism is a term used by Post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work stylistically from Impressionism.

  5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Schools/Welcome/Arts and Music ...

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    Art is a diverse range of (and products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.. In the perspective of the history of art, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind: from early pre-historic art to contemporary art; however, some theorists feel that the typical concept of "artistic ...

  6. Art - Wikipedia

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    The content of much formal art through history was dictated by the patron or commissioner rather than just the artist, but with the advent of Romanticism, and economic changes in the production of art, the artists' vision became the usual determinant of the content of his art, increasing the incidence of controversies, though often reducing ...

  7. Pastel - Wikipedia

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    Leon Dabo, Flowers in a Green Vase, c. 1910s, pastel. A pastel (US: / p æ ˈ s t ɛ l /) is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms.

  8. Collodion process - Wikipedia

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    The collodion process is an early photographic process. The collodion process, mostly synonymous with the "collodion wet plate process", requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.

  9. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The history of such philosophical theories that relate to chemistry can probably be traced back to every single ancient civilization. The common aspect in all these theories was the attempt to identify a small number of primary classical elements that make up all the various substances in nature.