The phrase "art backdrop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a background or setting that is artistic in nature, often in the context of visual arts, performances, or photography.
Example: "The gallery featured an impressive art backdrop that enhanced the overall aesthetic of the exhibition."
Alternatives: "artistic background" or "creative backdrop".
He comes up with Russian constructivism art backdrops.
When the red curtains finally pull back,they reveal an elegant, art nouveau backdrop, white set and the star herself in full-length, bronze satin gown.
The music spans the intimacy of "Isn't This a Lovely Day," a rainy-day gazebo duet, and the festive, ensemble "Piccolino," thronging an Art Deco backdrop on the Lido.
Recently Julian Schnabel achieved acclaim for his Basquiat (admittedly with home-turf advantage thanks to its art world backdrop), the emotionally tough Before Night Falls, and now The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The Modern Show, which had 90 exhibitors last year, has set up 50 booths on the 11th floor of 7 West 34th Street, with Empire State Building views as a fitting Art Deco backdrop.
(For the whole Johnson segment, the group's guitarists and bassists sat down in chairs at the front of the stage, before a hideous Art Brut backdrop that looked like bedsheets splashed with cement).
(After showing images of the North Carolina plantation where Monk's great-grandfather lived as a slave, with weeds-crunching-underfoot sounds and three musicians softly ringing bells, Mr. Moran and his drummer, Nasheet Waits, improvised over a tape of a Rwandan drum choir, with a kind of Op Art video backdrop, designed by David Dempewolf).
In this way, they could reassess the public space as something new: as a canvas for art, a backdrop for dream-like messages.
(The ubiquitous ads, with Leonardo DiCaprio and starry company arrayed against an Art Deco backdrop in postures reminiscent of an Irwin Shaw miniseries, might have come with a skull and crossbones attached, as far as I was concerned).
Dancing and singing "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (one of picture's many fine Irving Berlin tunes), Astaire systematically "guns down" his chorus of male dancers, using a staccato of tap steps to waste them against an Art Deco backdrop.
