Graphic Arts Definition
noun
The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques involving the application of lines and strokes to a two-dimensional surface.
American Heritage
Any form of visual artistic representation, esp. painting, drawing, photography, etc.
Webster's New World
The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques in which images are produced from blocks, plates, or type, as in engraving and lithography.
American Heritage
Those arts in which impressions are printed from various kinds of blocks, plates, screens, etc. as engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, dry point, offset, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- planography
- photozincography
- phototypy
- phototypography
- photolithography
- photo-offset
- palaeotypography
- gravure
- electronography
- chromoxylography
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