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<p>[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 355002, member: 1331"]Cited from <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/tate-debate-when-craft-art" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/tate-debate-when-craft-art" rel="nofollow">http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/tate-debate-when-craft-art</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This says it all for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tracy Fiegl14 October 2011, 15.54</p><p>Comparing art to craft is like comparing philosophy to engineering: they're two separate ways of looking at the same thing. To me art is communication of an idea or an emotion, while craft is the physical manipulation of material. An object can easily be both, either, or neither. A sculpture, for example, may communicate, but it was constructed using craft. Likewise a teapot can communicate an idea, but it was crafted. Function is misleading and no distinction. Functional objects can still communicate ideas, so art can be functional. One object could be viewed two ways: if you look at the way it was made and the materials used, you are looking at its craft, if you think about its ideas, you are viewing it as art. An object could have been crafted, but contain no art. Even a painting can be crafted but artless. A ready-made might be art with no craft. I very much like the idea of a spectrum. One last thought: skill doesn't enter into the definition of art, since a piece could succeed as art but be poorly crafted.</p><p><br /></p><p>You did art sunshine!!</p><p>Cheers</p><p>Stephen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 355002, member: 1331"]Cited from [URL]http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/tate-debate-when-craft-art[/URL] This says it all for me. Tracy Fiegl14 October 2011, 15.54 Comparing art to craft is like comparing philosophy to engineering: they're two separate ways of looking at the same thing. To me art is communication of an idea or an emotion, while craft is the physical manipulation of material. An object can easily be both, either, or neither. A sculpture, for example, may communicate, but it was constructed using craft. Likewise a teapot can communicate an idea, but it was crafted. Function is misleading and no distinction. Functional objects can still communicate ideas, so art can be functional. One object could be viewed two ways: if you look at the way it was made and the materials used, you are looking at its craft, if you think about its ideas, you are viewing it as art. An object could have been crafted, but contain no art. Even a painting can be crafted but artless. A ready-made might be art with no craft. I very much like the idea of a spectrum. One last thought: skill doesn't enter into the definition of art, since a piece could succeed as art but be poorly crafted. You did art sunshine!! Cheers Stephen[/QUOTE]
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