decoration

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Decoration is deployed with a painter’s sense of balance rather than an aggressive urge to cover everything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Many are related to various civil rights movements, when artists looked toward materials and art ideas outside the traditional Euro-American establishment, opening the way to the wildly diverse Pattern & Decoration movement of the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Standards of the Foreign Gifts and Decoration Act in effect at the time would have required Olson report any gifts over $285 and either return them or reimburse the federal government for the market value.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

Many aspects of the house, including the floral imagery and its collagelike nature, are also reminiscent of the women-led Pattern and Decoration art movement.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

There were many cast-iron stars, marking the graves of Grand Army men, and on each star a small wind-bitten flag from a year ago Decoration Day.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck