Decorative arts are all those activities related to art or crafts designed to produce objects with a purpose both utilitarian and ornamental. They are usually works made with an industrial or artisanal production but pursuing a certain aesthetic purpose. The concept is synonymous with the so-called applied arts or industrial arts, also sometimes called minor arts as opposed to the major arts or fine arts. In a certain sense, the decorative arts is a term applied preferably to the industrial arts, as well as to painting and sculpture, when its objective is not to generate a unique and differentiated work, but rather they seek a decorative and ornamental purpose, with a production generally serialized.
Western countries focused on keeping communism only within countries that already had implemented it rather than trying to abolish it completely first.
