From the crafter's point of view this is a wonderful proposition. In my interviews (in essays to follow this post ) this was a very big thing discussed, your craft is the process of making the art (craft-art with no intention or value applied). You could say that some thing like my craft is painting, but through this process you make art (art-a craft with intentions/values applied).
I would like to propose that art is something you apply an idea or value to. A crafter might make a ship in the bottle but an artist might make 200 ships in a bottle and fill a room with them saying that the ships represent our wanting to be free as people sail in ships to free themselves and the bottles restrict this freedom just as the world normally tends to do.
This blog's intention is to explore the muddy waters of when craft becomes art and trying to better define each definition.
Art- (as defined from dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art)
1.the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2.the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings
Craft- (as defined from dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/craft)
1.an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, esp. manual skill: the craft of a mason.
As you will see in my next several blog entries that these definitions are not so great at defining these quite complex ideas and concepts.
These definitions cannot adequately describe these concepts as for one you cannot define a word with the same word (as in having the word art in the definition of art), and returning to my proposition earlier (which will be supported in my next entry) that art is something with an applied value or intention while a craft is the process of the art making with no intentionality or value applied.
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