artistic heritage
Cultural creative inheritance
Artistic heritage refers to the creative works, traditions, and cultural expressions passed down through generations—paintings, music, architecture, crafts, performance styles.
It encompasses both physical artifacts and intangible practices that define a community's cultural identity: The museum preserves the region's artistic heritage.
Nations often invoke artistic heritage when discussing cultural preservation or repatriation of artifacts.
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- master craftsmanExpert in skilled trade
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- photographyCreating images from light
- paintingPigment on canvas
old masters · temples · sacred sites · oral storytelling · cathedrals · folklore · prose · ceramics · puppetry · cultural preservation · culinary arts · music · restoration · decorative arts · poetry · mosaics · dance · folk songs
artistic heritagenatural resources
Useful substances from nature
mineral wealth · raw materials · fossil fuels · natural environment · natural landscape
artistic heritageiconoclasm
Attacking revered traditions
cultural erasure · vandalism · cultural genocide · cultural amnesia · book burning
artistic heritageavant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
artistic innovation · experimental art · futurism · artistic revolution