[Jewelry making - Article 00385] - Re: [Orchid] Is Jewelry Making an Art?

[Karen Bahr]

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    I wasn't going to get caught up in this but many of us seem to be
    going away from the definition of art. 

    According to my Gage Canadian Dictionary: art as a noun 

    1. any form of human activity that is the product of imagination and
    skill and that appeals mainly to the imagination; especially,
    drawing, painting and sculpture, and also architecture, poetry,
    music, dancing, etc. 

    2. works produced by such activity 

    3. of, for, of having to do with art or artists 

    4. having or showing the techniques or characteristics of art 

    5. a branch or division of learning dealing mainly with human ideas
    and values and the development of the intellect, such as literature,
    philosophy, and history; one of the humanities 

    6. a craft or trade that requires skill and imagination 

    7. a particular skill or set of working principles 

    8. human skill or effort, as opposed to nature 

    And further on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary it states:
    Function: adjective : produced as an artistic effort or for
    decorative purposes 

    And as the definition for the adjective tells us is not all
    jewellery, wearable or not, for a decorative purpose? For that 
matter,
    Mr. Donivan:), are not (ironically) the rocks even remotely
    decorative? 

Karen Bahr - Karen's Artworx
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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