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Collage
The art of collage consists in conglutinating various materials on a medium, or even joining objects together, for example: scraps of paper, pieces of wood, photos, newspaper pages or little trinkets. The artist can equally polish off his work by adding to it a drawing or painting. We consider this form of art as a specificity of the 20th [Read more]
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Did You Know ? (Paper)
The first pulp was produced from cloth, cotton, or hemp rags. It was only in 1850 that wood began to be massively used, when it was discovered that it could be finely grated to produce the cellulose necessary for paper production.
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Did You Know? (Guardians of the laws)
Before the appearance of writing in Scandinavia, they would appoint "guardians of the laws". These were men charged with learning by heart and reciting upon demand all the laws and regulations of the land.
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Drawing
A drawing is a work generally made on a removable support using a medium, whether colored or not, such as pencils, feathers, pastels, crayons, or charcoal.
Requiring relatively little means, it's often used as the basis for more complex artistic creations in the fields of architecture, design, painting, sculpture, and industrial [Read more]
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Fauvism
Fauvism is an artistic movement employing intense, aggressive colors, as well as chromatic experimentation. It first appeared in France at the turn of the 20th Century thanks to the works of a small circle of artists, such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck.
Fertile notably between 1905 and 1907, the Fauvist [Read more]
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The History of Paper
Paper was invented in China during the 2nd century. In 105 AD, the high-ranking eunuch of the Imperial Court, Cai Lun, later in charge of the manufacture of weapons and paper, described in detail the his production process in which bark and cloth rags were reduced to pulp to produce the fibrous material to make paper.
Until 610, the year [Read more]
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