What is Art?
Jul. 30th, 2009 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennythereader(Post inspired by a back episode of the Overthinking It Podcast)
How do you define art? Where do you draw the line between art and craft?
Personally, I define art as any creative work that lasts. That is, anything that people are still talking about and responding to years, decades, or even centuries after it was originally created.
A craft, on the other hand, is any work of creation that the person did with their full effort and skill.
Someone can be a craftsman* without being an artist, but it's rare for an artist to not also be a craftsman. In fact, I would suspect that many of the people that we now think of the great artists thought of themselves more as craftsmen.
What do you guys think?
(*Gender assigned because "craftsperson" looked clunky.)
How do you define art? Where do you draw the line between art and craft?
Personally, I define art as any creative work that lasts. That is, anything that people are still talking about and responding to years, decades, or even centuries after it was originally created.
A craft, on the other hand, is any work of creation that the person did with their full effort and skill.
Someone can be a craftsman* without being an artist, but it's rare for an artist to not also be a craftsman. In fact, I would suspect that many of the people that we now think of the great artists thought of themselves more as craftsmen.
What do you guys think?
(*Gender assigned because "craftsperson" looked clunky.)
