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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?

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  • I agree. It reminds me of Walt Whitman's life and work, maybe William Blake's as well. (If one is attentive enough art is all there is.)

  • in reply to emanningis

    I think Whitman’s American Civil War poems are fascinating and Im very glad he wrote them and they survived.

    Blake’s paintings are part of the landscape of my nightmares. I first encountered them at exactly the same point in childhood when I was being exposed to the religious concept of hell and that it was where I was headed! I was just 5 or 6.

    I am so grateful to my parents for introducing me to all types of art, and eternally angry at religion for its abuse of me with its conditional love. 

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  • in reply to emanningis

    I think Whitman’s American Civil War poems are fascinating and Im very glad he wrote them and they survived.

    Blake’s paintings are part of the landscape of my nightmares. I first encountered them at exactly the same point in childhood when I was being exposed to the religious concept of hell and that it was where I was headed! I was just 5 or 6.

    I am so grateful to my parents for introducing me to all types of art, and eternally angry at religion for its abuse of me with its conditional love. 

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  • in reply to Alice-nice-Alice

    I’m so sorry - that’s sounds so upsetting for you. Sometimes it’s the timing of when we first see something isn’t it? I’m sorry religion has been a cause of such suffering for you. I wasn’t bought up with religion in my family, but about 4 years ago I got into Buddhism and it’s been really helpful to me. Because it doesn’t involve belief in a deity,  and it’s not in any way conditional or guilt trippy, I find it very positive and helpful. My husband was bought up in a very religious household and he has some very negative feelings about religion - it made him very anxious as a child - he thought god was watching him all the time when he was a little boy  - and understandably did not like that at all! Also he got very bored having to go to church so much, and realised that some of the people going to church that he came across were just very mean or horrible, and that made him very cynical about religious people too.