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Decorative arts or 'The' decorative arts is the traditional term for a number of arts and crafts for the making of ornamental and functional works in a great range of materials including ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textiles and many others. The field includes ceramics, glassware, furni...
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Body decoration and adornment has been around for thousands of years and can carry deep spiritual and social significance. An example would the Australian Aboriginal people whom traditionally have used body decoration and painting in many forms. Particular designs are used for particular individ...
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A flower bouquet is a collection of flowers in a creative arrangement. There are different kinds including nosegay, crescent, and cascading bouquets. Flower bouquets are often given for special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries. They are also used extensively in weddings. Traditionally...
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A collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photograph...
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Fiber art is a style of fine art which uses textiles such as fabric, yarn, and natural and synthetic fibers. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labour involved as part of its significance. Traditionally fiber is taken from plants or animals, for example cotton from cotton seed pods, li...
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Floral arts and design is the art of using plant materials and flowers to create a pleasing and balanced composition. Evidence of refined floristry is found as far back as the culture of Ancient Egypt. Professionally designed floral designs, arrangements or artwork incorporate the elements of flo...
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Ikebana (生け花?, "living flowers") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, also known as kadō (華道?, the "way of flowers"). "Ikebana" is from the Japanese ikeru (生ける?, "to place, to arrange, life, birth") and hana (花?, "flower")...
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A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the we...
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A mural is any piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. In the history of mural several methods have been used: A Fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), describes a method, where t...
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Plastic arts is a term, now largely redundant within English usage, specifically encompassing art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by moulding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. The term has also been ambiguously applied to all the visual (non-literary, non-mu...
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