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  2. Copying - Wikipedia

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    In visual art, copying the works of the masters is a standard way that students learn to paint and sculpt. Often, artists will use the term after to credit the original artist in the title of the copy (regardless of how similar the two works appear) such as in Vincent van Gogh's "First Steps (after Millet)" and Pablo Picasso's "Luncheon on the Grass, after Manet" (based on Manet's well-known ...

  3. Xerox art - Wikipedia

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    Xerox art. Xerox art (sometimes, more generically, called copy art, electrostatic art, scanography or xerography) is an art form that began in the 1960s. Prints are created by putting objects on the glass, or platen, of a copying machine and by pressing "start" to produce an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover ...

  4. Larry Tesler - Wikipedia

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    From there, the two developed the basic copy and paste function, now a standard feature in computing. Tesler also established the idea that computer interfaces should be modeless, where all actions are available to a user at all times, rather than modal, requiring the user to enter a specific mode to perform them. Gypsy was programmed to ...

  5. Copypasta - Wikipedia

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    The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [2] [3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year.

  6. ASCII art - Wikipedia

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    An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [10] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.

  7. Keyboard shortcuts in AOL Mail - AOL Help

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    Keyboard shortcuts make it easier and quicker to perform some simple tasks in your AOL Mail. Access all shortcuts by pressing shift+? on your keyboard.. All shortcuts are formatted for Windows computers, but most will work on a Mac by substituting Cmd for Ctrl or Option for Alt.

  8. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    25.7 cm × 37.9 cm (10.1 in × 14.9 in) The Great Wave off Kanagawa ( Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') [a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm ...

  9. Appropriation (art) - Wikipedia

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    In art, appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. [1] The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts ( literary, visual, musical and performing arts ). In the visual arts, "to appropriate" means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample ...