Decorative and applied art has always closely interacted with various spheres of human economic activity, in which manual labor is used, including pottery and carpentry, clothing and footwear, metal and leather processing. In different corners of the Earth, peculiar folk crafts based on unique techniques of processing available materials were gradually formed and perfected over many years. The development of crafts was greatly influenced by cultural, religious, social and climatic peculiarities of each region.

Throughout the history of mankind, arts and crafts have developed autonomously in different regions of our planet. Moreover, each nation strove to keep the secrets of its masters secret. The Chinese carefully guarded from foreigners the technology of porcelain production, the Arabs – the art of metal stamping, Venetian masters – the secrets of Murano glass production.

Only in the era of the industrial revolution in the middle of the 19th century did the situation change dramatically. New materials appeared, books describing cultural values and knowledge of different peoples became available to the masses, industrial production, including arts and crafts, reached a huge scale. A significant part of the secrets of ancient masters became publicly available, which provided a huge number of creative people wide opportunities for self-realization.

Nowadays arts and crafts are experiencing a true heyday. In the era of the Internet, anyone can easily master the ancient technique of intarsia, chasing or art painting, using the resources of specialized forums and visual video tutorials masters. This situation undoubtedly contributes to further popularization, development and preservation of most types of arts and crafts for posterity.

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Probably because we are used to it, and we are looking for some kind of originality, and ideology, and we are looking for something better. But when we don’t see it, we immediately notice its absence, just like a person’s lack of oxygen.

The problems of decorative and applied art are:

1. Social improvement of emotional and spiritual upbringing – this is the distribution of appeals to the programs of fine arts, including educational and artistic development. Because it is the solution of artistic and educational tasks that primarily forms the status of artistic mastery of the individual.

Thus, the main tasks of applied art are:

1. The task is to demonstrate their ability to express their opinion on the composition in the most aesthetic way, or we can also say to awaken in the society that original spark of creativity that was given to them by nature.
2. Formation of artistic and aesthetic thinking in the national thinking to its reality, from the point of view of artistic cognition of the world. And most of all, it is the transmission by the subjects of a sense of the beautiful, harmonious and aesthetic in everyday life, and mastering it as special.
3. The third subsection is about the development of knowledge and the development of ideas of human vision and studying its role and history in people’s lives, as well as understanding the languages of societies, their thoughts and examples that help to improve their level.

Decorative and applied arts have long played an important role in the social, spiritual and aesthetic life of people. It has contributed to further development in art and everyday life. It also develops human creative thinking, its originality, ideology and the development of new ideas that develop the environment.

This science should not be despised because it is one of the most important qualities and ideology of originality that influences the development of society, logical thinking and finding something new, that is, beautiful. From the point of view of specialists, they try to convey to us the theory that awakens in our thoughts, the peculiarity, spirituality and experiments that will raise society to a new and better level of this art.

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American works at the Met, dating from the late 17th century through the early 20th century, include some 12,000 examples of furniture, silver, glass, pewterware, ceramics, and textiles. Among them-an outstanding collection of American stained glass featuring the innovative work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Other highlights include outstanding examples of plastic art, such as blown and pressed glass vessels created by the New England Glass Company, Dorflinger Works, and Tiffany Studios; valuable furniture dating from 1820; and a number of late 19th-century ceramic and silver objects, including works by Paul Revere.

The ceramics collection features a wide range of materials, methods and makers, from American-German redware to Rookwood pottery. The Met’s textile collection features more than 100 quilts, 18th and early 19th century needlework, and fabrics designed by Candace Wheeler, America’s finest female fabric and interior designer of the period.

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