Comments on: SWEET & SOUR: “The Great Heart War” post-modern fabric art

by: April D. Smith

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:58:01 +0000

This is a piece of art and a piece of craft for me. I’m still wondering exactly why they are sitting around the table looking at a heart in a glass. Are they all heartless creatures and this is an example of that??? What is going on in there heads??? The rabbit looks a little ticked of also like he thinks he deserves this art….This picture is definately modern art. It also has alot of mixed media in it, pertaining to the different materials and so on….All in all this was one of my favorite pieces of the show….

by: John Mooney

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:36:41 +0000

I would have to say that this is craft because it is functional and requires special manual skills to create the objects. Craft also involves surface decoration so this piece of work is craft.

by: paul simmons

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:11:33 +0000

I believe the distinction between art ant craft is fabricated. “craft” can facilitate deeper understanding and “art” always has a function, the expansion of consciousness

by: sweetandsour

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:34:48 +0000

hey, Dero! Thanks for the compliments or do I mean complements? I’m not a she……..most of the time. Sour

by: Dero

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:37:07 +0000

This is great dialogue. Sweet/Sour is amazingly articulate and knowledgeable. I’ll take her as my informed leader!

by: Verena Mullins

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:24:35 +0000

Wow, that’s a very interesting question. We all know them, use them, but do we ever think about them? The purpose of emoticons is to add emotions and feelings to simple writing. Art often causes emotions in different people - would that be a criteria? Many artists create art simply to provoke an emotion in the viewers of their work. I think emoticons are popart in some way. There are ones that can get quite creative (I love the chicken emoticon they have on yahoo messenger). Emoticons have evolved into art and they’re widely popular, but not of high quality or craft.

by: Cruella de Ville

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:32:01 +0000

But are emoticons craft or art?

by: Realitytourist

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:45:10 +0000

Grrr, who puts emoticons into blogs? That was supposed to be a close quote, close parenthesis and comma.

by: Realitytourist

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:59 +0000

Trapped in that madness of categorizing art, are we? Face it, if it’s functional it’s craft. Everything else is art, whether it’s sculpture or soft sculpture or ceramic or photographic or even mixed media. When we quit trying to pigeonhole art into categories (see http://www.coloarts.state.co.us/grants/manage/codes/ and scroll down to “Disciplines̶ and let each piece stand on its own merit, we can enjoy the work instead.

by: Chantel Canterbur y

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:59:00 +0000

Is this art or a craft? Many would say someone just put together left over pieces of material and just went with the flow and made something they liked. Or other would say the took time and effort in this piece. I would say that a craft is similar to art, i mean your making something. Which art is making something and be creative. So I would call this a piece of artwork.