graphic arts
Also called graphics. the arts or techniques, as engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut, lithography, and other methods, by which copies of an original design are printed from a plate, block, or the like.
the arts of drawing, painting, and printmaking.
Origin of graphic arts
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How to use graphic arts in a sentence
In Leipzig, Saxony, for example the Kunstgewerbeschule aims at the graphic arts mainly.
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany | Arthur Henry ChamberlainThe structural arts, didactic in their manner; the graphic arts, in their matter also.
The Crown of Wild Olive | John RuskinThe graphic arts have general methods with which we can only become familiar by the use of the rule and compass.
It has tasked the resources of the plastic and the graphic arts.
Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete | Lyndon OrrIn the graphic arts Englishmen exhibit no feeling for rhythm.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning | Willard Huntington Wright
British Dictionary definitions for graphic arts
any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
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