Architecture of Indonesia built environment today. Early twentieth century modernisms are still very evident across much of Indonesia, especially in urban areas. The 1930s world depression was devastating and was followed by another decade of war, revolution and struggle, which restricted the development of built environments. The Javanese art-deco style from the 1920s became the root for the first Indonesian national style in the 1950s. The politically turbulent 1950s meant that the new but bruised Indonesia was neither able to afford or focused to follow the new international movements such as modernist brutalism. Continuity from the 1920s and 30s through to the 1950s
Blackamoor (decorative arts) Blackamoor (decorative arts) Blackamoor is a European art style from the Early Modern period depicting highly stylized figures, usually African males but sometimes other non-European races, in subservient or exoticized form. Blackamoor is often found in sculpture, jewelry, furniture, and decorative art. In the Iberian peninsula historically this word does not exist. The Castilian word for the moor was "moro", Portuguese: "mouro" and for a black "negro", Portuguese: "negro", "preto", but there has never been an Iberian word merging the two meanings. Blackamoor is now often viewed as racist and culturally insensitive. As jewelry, such figures usually appear in antique