Thorne opened this issue on Feb 04, 2002 ยท 52 posts
Barbarellany posted Tue, 05 February 2002 at 7:01 AM
Taking elements and manipulating them to your vision is art. Craft is a very misunderstood word and is deemed as lesser than art when in fact it ist the individual process by which art or anything else is created. Craft suggests a practiced art, where the artist has refined their process. The ancient world understood this better as everything they made was seen as art and decorated accordingly. It was the advent of machinery that took the idea of art out of the creation process because man/woman was taken out of the process. Computers have brought man back in to the process because we are not die casting, but working hard to individualize the materials given. Why else would Mike2 have so many morphs? Each of us has a style even if we have started with the same materials, thus we are again artists. The funny part here is that in other definitions of art, fine art is usually considered art without practical application or function (painting, sculpture) and crafts is art with practcal function (clothing, furnature design}. In that case we are fine artists.