The phrase "arts backdrop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a setting or context related to the arts, often in discussions about performances, exhibitions, or creative environments.
Example: "The gallery's new exhibition features a stunning arts backdrop that enhances the overall experience for visitors."
Alternatives: "cultural setting" or "artistic context".
However, against the art backdrop of Venice, it becomes yet another living exhibit people can wander into, watch and photograph before boarding a plane home, their real passports and visas in hand.
He comes up with Russian constructivism art backdrops.
"The metaphor we used was a modern art gallery: a dark blue marble floor, a very large fiber-arts painting backdrop, several non-traditional abstract furniture pieces--and the people onstage as portraits in the gallery". In contrast, his "Common Pursuit" set is not only traditional, but aggressive.
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 Black Belly of the Tarantula" is a 1971 film directed by Paolo Cavara, an over-the-top Italian giallo thriller about a murderer who slices open women, with a pop-art Roman backdrop.
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).
She straightened out the natural syncopation of songs by Ary Barroso, Sinval Silva and the less famous composers of Bahian carnival standards, and her six-piece band, led by the guitarist Luiz Brasil, created a genteel art-folk backdrop for her, with acoustic guitars, double bass, saxophone and some spare percussion.
(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).
