[Jewelry making - Article 01252] - Re: [Orchid] Is it Art? Is it Craft?

[James Miller]

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    I call myself an Artist Craftsman, as well as a Master Goldsmith, it
     depends who I am talking to. I always understood that an artist 
    craftsman is one who thinks of a piece of art, designs and draws the
    item. them  makes the item themselves. How many so called pieces of
    art are not made by the  artist who takes the credit. Take bronze
    sculptures for instance, the  artist carves or models the master
    pattern, and takes the whole credit for  the piece, forgetting about
    the skills of the craftsmen who cast their models and the craftmen
    who clean up the castings and finish them for display. All of the
    work that I produced in the first twenty years of my experience in
    the trade has been sold with the credit going to the designer or
    shop who sold it. I think true art is that which is designed and
    produced from  scratch by the one artist, I do not consider anything
    that is constructed out of pre made articles as true art. Also I
    notice that artists seem to latch on a theme and stick to it, myself
    included as you can see with my pieces on the orchid gallery, all of
    my own designs are nature based, I long for the day when art critics
    do not rave over a pile of squashed beer cans as art, as a closure I
    suppose that I consider art as the joining together of original idea
    and skill. 

    Here endeth the lesson according to me. 

    I will now get off my soapbox and do some work. 

James Miller
JMDesignFIPG AT aol.com 

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