Flashcards: Decorative arts

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

Royal Copenhagen, officially the Royal Porcelain Factory (Danish: Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik), is a manufacturer of porcelain products and was founded in Copenhagen 1 May 1775 under the protection of Queen Juliane Marie.

Rococo (/rəˈkoʊkoʊ/ or /roʊkəˈkoʊ/), less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting many aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music, and theatre.

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.

Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

The Imperial Porcelain Factory (or Manufactory) (Russian: Императорский Фарфоровый Завод, Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod), is a producer of handpainted ceramics in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Ironwork is any weapon, artwork, utensil or architectural feature made of iron especially used for decoration.

Carl Frederik Peder Aagaard (29 January 1833, Odense – 2 November 1895, Copenhagen) was a Danish landscape painter and decorative artist.

Artificial flowers are imitations of natural flowering plants used for commercial or residential decoration.

A vase (/ˈvɑːz/, /ˈveɪs/, or /ˈveɪz/) is an open container, today often used to hold cut flowers.

A handheld fan is an implement used to induce an airflow for the purpose of cooling or refreshing oneself.

Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F).

A folding screen is a type of free-standing furniture.

The Biedermeier period refers to an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew and arts appealed to common sensibilities.

Pressed flower craft consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten and exclude light and moisture.

Decoupage or Dècoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements.

A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.

Lacquer is a clear or coloured wood finish that dries by solvent evaporation or a curing process that produces a hard, durable finish.

A decal (/ˈdiːkæl/, /dᵻˈkæl/, or /ˈdɛkəl/) or transfer is a plastic, cloth, paper or ceramic substrate that has printed on it a pattern or image that can be moved to another surface upon contact, usually with the aid of heat or water.

Patina (/ˈpætᵻnə/ or /pəˈtiːnə/) is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of stone; on copper, bronze and similar metals (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes); on wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing); or any such acquired change of a surface through age and exposure.

A cabriole leg is one of (usually) four vertical supports of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves; the upper arc is convex, while lower is concave; the upper curve always bows outward, while the lower curve bows inward; with the axes of the two curves in the same plane.

The Kentucky Folk Art Center is a folk art museum administered by Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, United States.

GingerBread Lane is a non-profit seasonal display of a handmade gingerbread village prepared by chef Jon Lovitch.

Vaillancourt Folk Art (VFA) is a family owned and operated wholesale and retail company based in Sutton, Massachusetts that manufactures highly detailed, hand-painted chalkware collectibles.

Malibu tile refers to a type of ceramic tile that takes its inspiration from the tiles that were produced at Malibu Potteries in Malibu, California, during the latter half of the 1920s.

Heinrich Hansen (23 November 1821, Haderslev – 10 July 1890, Frederiksberg) was a Danish architectural painter and State Councillor.

Brookfield Craft Center, located in Brookfield, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, founded in 1954 with the mission "to teach and preserve the skills of fine craftsmanship and enable creativity and personal growth through craft education.

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects, in recent centuries using vitreous enamel, and in older periods also inlays of cut gemstones, glass, and other materials.

The Societé des artistes décorateurs (SAD, Society of Decorative Artists) was a French society of designers of furniture, interiors and decorative arts that was active from 1901 until the 2000s.

Design museum Gent is a museum founded in 1903, located in the historical centre of the Belgian city of Ghent.

Blanche Adele Ostertag (born August 27, 1872) was an American decorative artist.

The Bezalel school was an art movement in Palestine in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods.

Bonkei (盆景) is Japanese for "tray landscape".

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Maki-e (蒔絵, literally: sprinkled picture) is Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder as a decoration using a makizutsu or a kebo brush.

Nicolaas van der Waay (15 October 1855, Amsterdam - 18 December 1936, Amsterdam) was a Dutch decorative artist, watercolorist and lithographer.

Jurriaan Andriessen (12 July 1742, Amsterdam - 31 July 1819, Amsterdam) was a Dutch decorative painter and graphic artist.

Ando Cloisonné Company (安藤七宝店 Andō Shipōyaki) is a Japanese cloisonné making company located in Sakae, Nagoya, central Japan.

Thomas Kershaw (1819–1898) was a leading British pioneer of marbleizing, the creation of imitation marble finishes.

Tole painting is the folk art of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture.

Jouy-en-Josas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Peter Hunt born Frederick Lowe Schnitzer, 1896, in East Orange, New Jersey, - 1967 Cape Cod, was an American artist whose work is described as folk art or primitive art.

An urn is a vase, often with a cover, that usually has a somehat narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.

David Wiseman (born September 11, 1981 in Pasadena, California) is an American artist and designer whose work is notable for its intricate craftsmanship and dialogue with traditional decorative arts.

Paolo De Poli (Padua, August 1, 1905 - Padua, September 21, 1996) was an Italian enameller and painter.

Joaquim Espalter i Rull or, in Spanish, Joaquín Espalter y Rull (September 30 1809, Sitges - 16 January 1880, Madrid) was a Catalonian painter who spent most of his career in Madrid; known primarily for portraits and historical scenes.

Johann Anton Tischbein (28 August 1720, Haina - 26 July 1784, Hamburg) was a German painter and art teacher from the Tischbein family of artists.

Charles Catteau (26 January 1880, Douai – 20 October 1966, Nice) was a French Art Déco industrial designer.

The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian arts and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina.

Mariano Salvador Maella Pérez (21 August 1739, Valencia - 10 May 1819, Madrid) was a Spanish painter known primarily for his portraits and religious frescoes.

Much traditional Chinese art was made for the imperial court, often to be then redistributed as gifts.