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graphic arts
plural noun
- 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.
graphic arts
plural noun
- 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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Word History and Origins
Origin of graphic arts1
First recorded in 1660–70
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Example Sentences
In Leipzig, Saxony, for example the Kunstgewerbeschule aims at the graphic arts mainly.
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The structural arts, didactic in their manner; the graphic arts, in their matter also.
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The graphic arts have general methods with which we can only become familiar by the use of the rule and compass.
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It has tasked the resources of the plastic and the graphic arts.
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In the graphic arts Englishmen exhibit no feeling for rhythm.
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