decorative art

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noun

art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.

Usually decorative arts. any of the arts, as ceramics or jewelry making, whose works are created to be useful.

works of decorative art collectively.

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Origin of decorative art

First recorded in 1850–55

Mosaic, as is well-known, is the most permanent of all the processes of decorative art.
Theodoric the Goth|Thomas Hodgkin
Even where the primitive era transcended a merely magical or decorative art, it did not advance beyond memorial art.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
Raphael admired, and caused his pupils to imitate and copy them; and they influenced all decorative art for a considerable period.
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford
This seems a truism, but the neglect of these plain axioms causes many mistakes in decorative art.
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford

The downfall of decorative art, domestic as well as national, kept pace with the downfall of the Roman Empire.
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford