tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post6678545907649030197..comments2024-03-11T06:27:38.308-07:00Comments on AND SEW IT GOES: Odds and endsTerry Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16650965451863656517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-90323033367890042212013-11-06T12:25:59.650-08:002013-11-06T12:25:59.650-08:00The definition "Craft is useful, Art is not&q...The definition "Craft is useful, Art is not" is a favorite definition and always makes me smile. There's some truth to it. I find it interesting that the definition of Art is nearly always a comparitive one, and as June said, varies from person to person. Fun to read the discussions though. People get quite intense occasionally. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821580791160333560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-34097233019672685292013-11-04T17:43:04.369-08:002013-11-04T17:43:04.369-08:00Terry -- your definition (as rendered here) is as ...Terry -- your definition (as rendered here) is as good as any. I'm thinking that the latest post on the new and revived Ragged Cloth deserves some commentary. The post is about the quilt art that won the $200,000 (that's right -- two hundred thousand dollars) prize in a popular contest in, I think, Minnesota (Check Ragged Cloth for details). But none of the "high art" judges liked anything the popular vote went to.<br /><br />I'm thinking that aesthetic perceptions are so dictated by experience, knowledge, and personal histories that all discussions are bound to come down to whatever you want them to be. This isn't the way the financial collectors like to think of it, of course, and they have a whole host of self-interested folks who would agree with them (all of those folks have a different personal history, mostly involving high finance). But -- I'm putting my money on bringing to bear lots of experience (educational and life) and adding in some personal taste. I would push handmade (or painted) and beautiful along the way, 'cause I think those attributes will make people who own such things happier. IMHO, of course --snort-- Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00325386238844997236noreply@blogger.com