Knowra Decorative arts Decorative arts Decorative arts design and make functional or ornamental objects, including ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, furniture, and jewelry. They unite visual form with material, use, and craft.
Craft : Skilled work that makes objects by hand or with tools, often combining practical knowledge and design. Decorative arts depend on skilled making as well as visual decisions.
Ceramics : Objects made from clay and hardened by heat, including pottery, porcelain, and tiles. Ceramics range from everyday vessels to highly ornamented display objects.
Arts and Crafts movement : A nineteenth-century movement that advocated skilled handcraft and reform of industrial design. Its critique of mass production reshaped ideas about craft and artistic labor.
Fine art : Art created chiefly for aesthetic or intellectual consideration rather than practical use. The distinction from decorative arts often turns on whether an object is made for use.
Material culture : The study of how people create, use, value, and interpret physical objects. It places decorative objects within the social lives they help shape.
Glass art : Art made by shaping, coloring, engraving, or assembling glass. Glass combines transparency, color, and technical forming in decorative objects.
Bauhaus : A German art and design school founded in 1919 that sought to unite art, craft, and industry. The school recast the relation between workshops, functional objects, and industrial production.
Industrial design : The professional design of products manufactured at industrial scale. It shares functional aims with decorative arts but usually centers on mass production.
Design : The planning of form, function, and appearance in objects, spaces, or systems. Design links an object's intended use to its visual form.
Metalwork : The shaping and joining of metal to make objects, structures, or ornament. Metalwork brings casting, forging, engraving, and precious materials into the decorative arts.
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