{"id":6514,"date":"2014-03-23T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:22:19","slug":"the-line-between-art-and-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-line-between-art-and-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line Between Art and Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this video on the TedEd website<\/a> (TedTalks educational series of lessons rather than talks)\u00a0\u00a0fascinating. Because being able to deem certain work as art versus craft gives the creator a frame work through which to price and market their work as well as offering a certain status for those deemed artist, there have been many a long debate on this subject. What most people probably don’t realize is that the idea of being an artist rather than just a skilled craftsperson is a relatively new concept for mankind, and in some parts of the world is still not a widely used concept.<\/p>\n

This short 5 minute video goes over the history of the concept of art and how we might define craft versus art. I was not surprised at the conclusion but it does very succinctly illustrate the problem with trying to create a black and white definition. (Click on the image to get to the video.)<\/p>\n

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I found this video on the TedEd website (TedTalks educational series of lessons rather than talks)\u00a0\u00a0fascinating. Because being able to deem certain work as art versus craft gives the creator a frame work through which to price and market their work as well as offering a certain status for those deemed artist, there have been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2489,2485,2488,103,2486,2487,2492,2491,2490],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-history","tag-art-versus-craft","tag-artisan","tag-artist","tag-craft","tag-craftperson","tag-ted-ed","tag-ted-talks","tag-teded"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-1H4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}