An interesting concept

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?

I'm not sure I can explain it more, I guess it's that humans create things, they draw things from the imagination and the psyche and give them shape and meaning, thats mostly understandale to others.

It's interesting that so many people have mentioned the arts and crafts movement, its quite devicive, some love it and others have quite a visceral reaction against it. Personally I think it's snobbery as many of those who dislike so much splutter about it not being real art, but what is real art?

I think art is taught and it does have instructions, if you go to an art class or read a book on painting and drawing techniques theres lots of instructions, but it's taught to the few and not to the many, thats probably where the idea of status comes in, you have to have a certain status to be able to access the knowlege. Craft is cheaper, often something done by women too and low status males such as weaving as a cottage industry before the industrial revolution. I think theres a huge class element in art, how we access it and how we feel about it and what we think it's for, but does it have to have a purpose other than to be what it is?

I think how people react to art is telling, often the very word brings splutters of outrage, it seems to speak to something very deep in us, far more than simply what we like and what we don't.

I'm not sure I can explain it more, I guess it's that humans create things, they draw things from the imagination and the psyche and give them shape and meaning, thats mostly understandale to others.

It's interesting that so many people have mentioned the arts and crafts movement, its quite devicive, some love it and others have quite a visceral reaction against it. Personally I think it's snobbery as many of those who dislike so much splutter about it not being real art, but what is real art?

I think art is taught and it does have instructions, if you go to an art class or read a book on painting and drawing techniques theres lots of instructions, but it's taught to the few and not to the many, thats probably where the idea of status comes in, you have to have a certain status to be able to access the knowlege. Craft is cheaper, often something done by women too and low status males such as weaving as a cottage industry before the industrial revolution. I think theres a huge class element in art, how we access it and how we feel about it and what we think it's for, but does it have to have a purpose other than to be what it is?

I think how people react to art is telling, often the very word brings splutters of outrage, it seems to speak to something very deep in us, far more than simply what we like and what we don't.