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. << Wonderful point. In fact, the whole world of work and learning has started to recover from the time-clock-punching industrial era; we are quickly returning to the 1700's, when work and life were more unified and less regimented. >> 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. << But what I produce is illustrations and animations for college "courseware" (interactive textbooks). Doesn't that fall into the zone of practical function, rather than art-to-be-enjoyed? (That's why I consider myself a craftsman, not an artist.)

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