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An interesting concept

TheCatWoman

Art is the craft of being human.

I really relate to this, but others don't as they seem to see art and craft as two very different things with art being more lofty than craft, which is mearly the ability to do something competantly. For me it goes to the heart of what art is, it is the crafting of non verbal means of sharing a concept, although I do think words can be art too, a beautifully crafted sentence is a thing of beauty.

What do you all think?

  • Craft can be something done at home. It often involves something learnt such knitting or crochet. However there are also ancient crafts which also have a particular way of doing them, for example thatching or shoeing a horse. 

    I see art as something you do in whatever way suits you. Perhaps a craft though could be both. There are instructions on how to do it, but when it is decorated that part is art because you can design it or in the case of thatching there is a unique signature, perhaps in the form of a bird.

    I don't understand what you mean about the craft of being human. Are you able to explain more?

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I get what you mean about craft being more practicle and art more conceptual, but is that a false split? I think it is, I think we've been taught to see craft as lesser than "art", we've taken the art out of artificier! I think we often devalue making, we tke the soul out if it and make it a "thing", rather than a skill that can be beautiful, functional and speak to the soul. Craft is something done at home, or by the Womens Institute, we see it as a passtime and a hobby rather than something with soul, maybe craft is seen as something you learn at home, whereas art is taught in colleges and higher educational establishments.

  • I kind of always thought of it that art was more conceptual, and craft was more practical? I don't know if that's quite what I mean, but crafters seemed to make and have something at the end of it, where as when I did art it wasn't about the end product as much? You wouldn't know what you created until you decided to stop working on it? Craft seemed to be more about an end goal?

    But there is artistry in crafting, and a lot of other human endeavours of the soul.