File puptcrit/puptcrit.0709, message 265


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



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