From: HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:13:44 EDT To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] What is Art? In a message dated 9/17/2007 9:17:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, alangregorycook-AT-msn.com writes: When I was a college freshman, my painting instructor told us: ART IS THE EMBODIMENT OF AN IDEA. He did not tell us what kind of idea---that is up to the artist. As an interesting contrast to your experience, having failed abysmally in what few art classes I rarely even attempted, I asked a friend of mine who had been married to an honest-to-God artist for years what was the difference between art and craft. She said "Craft is something that has a use." I found that simple and elegant, and have therefore not inflated my ego to the point of imagining myself an artist, since what I make is for honest use. She also said something striking: that visual artists made dreadful marital partners if they manage marriage at all. She was generally right there. Only exception I can find at all was Arthur Rackham. And in self defense, I would like to humbly protest the extremely lofty rhetoric on the art theme, as it is beginning to sound more like a philosophy textbook lately, than people who "wag the doll." Pretty much not in relation to puppetry, Alice ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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