graphic arts

graphic arts
1. 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.
2. the arts of drawing, painting, and printmaking.
[1660-70]

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