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Half-tones
Michelle

 

all those shades of tone between the lightest and darkest.

Handicrafts
archive

 

1. manual skill; an ocupation requiring a skill with the hands;

2. the articles fashioned by those engaged in handicraft.

Happening
falta

 

an event which combines the visual arts and improvised theater. Happenings became popular in the USA in the 1960s.

Hard-edge Painting
Regina Aprijaskis

 

painting style of abstract art characterized by sharply defined areas of flat color. It originated in the late 1950s in reaction to Abstract Expressionism, stressing a calculated, detached approach rather than one characterized by spontaneity and emotion. Leading exponents include US artists Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) and Kenneth Noland.

Hot Color Tone
Freddy

 

colors which tend to be reddish in hue.

Hue
falta

 

color; gradation of color: attribute of colors that permits them to be classed as red, yellow, green, blue, or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors.

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