GRAPHIC ARTS Definition & Meaning

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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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Origin of graphic arts¹

First recorded in 1660–70

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After stints in rehab, Webber hoped to turn her life around, find a part-time job and enroll in a graphic arts program at a South Florida college.

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Mr. Newman excelled in drawing and planned to study graphic arts, but after graduating high school he started working in bars, managing several before he opened Catch a Rising Star.

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“My friends thought I was a spreadsheet nerd,” said the investigator, who worked as an office manager and in graphic arts before joining Tripadvisor 19 years ago.

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The “Funky” creator graduated from Kent State — the year before the Vietnam War-era shootings on campus there — and by the early 1970s was teaching middle school graphic arts and pursuing an art career himself.

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Muzikir also earned his associate’s degree and learned graphic arts in the prison’s print shop, his attorney wrote.

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