decorative arts - Serving to adorn or embellish; ornamental. An imprecise collective term for such art forms as ceramics, enamels, furniture, glass, metalwork, and textiles, especially when they take forms used as interior decoration.

Sometimes designated the "minor" arts to distinguish them from the "major arts" of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the graphic arts.

• The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts site and check out their Decorative Arts collection.
  
  
• Stanford University Museum of Art. Stanford also has a fine collection of Decorative Arts pieces.
  
  
• Decorativearts.com has a glossary of modern decorative arts terms.

Also see applied arts, brummagem, craft, découpage, Index of American Design, low art.

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