CRAFTSMANSHIP
Aptitude, skill, and manual dexterity in the use of tools and materials.
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Craftsmanship. The skills, knowledge, and dexterity involved in creating works of art. Generally refers to skill in producing expertly finished products; fine workmanship.
craftsmanship - The quality of what a person does. Craftsmanship is most admired when a person creates with skill or dexterity, usually with the hands, whether with or without tools.
Also see craftsmanship, talent, and virtuosity.
viscosity - The relative resistance of a liquid to stirring or movement, and its stickiness. The thicker it is the greater is its viscosity; the thinner it is the lesser is its viscosity.
Design and craftsmanship
Entrance gate of the Güell Pavilions
During his student days, Gaudí attended craft workshops, such as those taught by Eudald Puntí, Llorenç Matamala and Joan Oñós, ...
folk art Art of people who have had no formal, academic training, but whose works are part of an established tradition of style and craftsmanship.
figure and on the quest for an "ideal city," fashioned in clear and pure architectural forms, in some courts artists still depicted plants and animals, customs and landscapes, feelings and relationships with highly detailed, intricate craftsmanship.
Throughout succeeding ages there is continued evidence that no other substance - except perhaps wood, of which we have even fewer ancient examples - has been so consistently connected with man's art-craftsmanship.
They returned to craftsmanship (Ruskin, Moris) with their art and the way peasants lived (Tolstoy). They were in contact with artists like Walter Crane and Akseli Gallén-Kallela who visited Hungary.
William was an artist, architect, and poet and he valued simplicity, good craftsmanship, and good design over the extravagance of the Victorian style.
In architecture, too, where continuing traditions of craftsmanship and knowledge of construction techniques are even more likely to be of great importance, no matter what the immediate sources or the intentions of patrons, ...
The Arts and Crafts Movement was an attempt to elevate the status of craftsmanship and the decorative arts following the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the development of mass production.
Warhol was against the idea of skill and craftsmanship as a way of expressing the artist's personality.
At times Gossaert chose, as he did here, to re-create the forms (the occupational portrait, for example) as well as the precision and craftsmanship of such earlier northern artists as Jan van Eyck (d. 1441).
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a celebration of individual design and craftsmanship, developing as a reaction against transformation of Britain due to the industrial revolution.
Anything that involves highly repetitive movements, takes a long time, is highly stylized, took stupendous energy or craftsmanship to produce could be interpreted as having been the product of obsessive behaviour.
metals, tortoise shell, lacquer, egg shell, shagreen, leather, a cross-fertilization of styles either imported from colonial empires and the Orient or borrowed from art history, all were the characteristic signs of this exceptional craftsmanship ...
Quality in fine art refers to the essential characteristics of an art work such as its excellence, fine craftsmanship, authenticity, originality and its present physical condition.
Art appraisers certify the quality of artworks that they examine.
The term Martelé is derived from the French word “to hammer' and underscores the significance placed on superior craftsmanship and innovative design.
Noun
1. the arts of decorative design and handicraft; "they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass production"
(hypernym) art, artistic creation, artistic production
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The consequence, many believed, was the neglect of good craftsmanship.
Teaching at the school concentrated on functional craftsmanship and students were encouraged to design with mass-produced goods in mind. Enormously controversial and unpopular with right wingers in Weimar, the school moved in 1925 to Dessau.
functional art: functional objects such as dishes and clothes that are of a high artistic quality and/or craftsmanship; art with a utilitarian purpose.
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An English 19th-century aesthetic movement derived from William Morris and his dedication to craftsmanship ...
Consider that some might suggest that Untitled (Green Silver) c.1949 looks easy to produce; that it lacks 'skill' or 'craftsmanship'.
The term Folk art is used to describe the work of artists who have had no formal, academic training, but whose works are part of an established tradition of style and craftsmanship.
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Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photorealistic style.
This sets a high standard, clearly; but though a neoclassical artist who fails to achieve it may create works that are inane, vacuous or even mediocre, gaffes of taste and failures of craftsmanship are not commonly neoclassical failings.
In addition to the stepped pyramid, he built a vast complex containing temples and smaller tombs, surrounded by a great wall. The name of his architect, Imhotep, is legendary. He was later worshipped as a god for the remarkable craftsmanship in the ...
by an artist, it was the intellectual decision taken by the artist to place it in a gallery and call it art that made it art. It meant that anything could be art. This represented a movement away from the idea of physical creation and craftsmanship ...
Because craftsmanship is deliberately sacrificed, universal standards by which to judge the work are missing.
Some artists used new materials and mass produced while others used more expensive materials and valued high craftsmanship. Despite the difference in opinion, artists of the art nouveau movement believed all art should be in harmony.
Others deplored the shoddiness of mass-produced machine-made goods and aimed to elevate the decorative arts to the level of fine art by applying the highest standards of craftsmanship and design to everyday objects.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Roman, Sculpture, School
  
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