tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post8561416231394359930..comments2024-03-09T10:15:11.266+13:00Comments on Unravelling: Art/Craft Discussion AlertMeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-27392443545111199472008-05-08T09:10:00.000+12:002008-05-08T09:10:00.000+12:00Over the weekend, I was watching a very old doco o...Over the weekend, I was watching a very old doco of two brothers in Japan. The older brother was 102 at the time, the younger 99, and they both grew up in a Yuzen master's house. The brother grew up to be more or less a producer/director of Yuzen obis; he has an army of artisans working for him, and he gives directions and designers design and weavers weave, but it carries his brand. Sometimes the original ideas aren't even his.<BR/><BR/>The younger brother designs and weaves No play costumes; I'm not sure about the warping but he does the whole thing on his centuries-old loom. <BR/><BR/>Both brothers, and their works, are considered works of art, as I believe they should be. At that level it didn't even matter if they were objet d'art or decorative art, I guess, but they were most definitely serious art. And it was nice to watch a doco made in Japan, about Japanese crafts because it assumed that everybody watching the doco agreed that they were art/artists. <BR/><BR/>I forgot where I was going with this now, Lynne...Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27254015.post-57017202413884399872008-05-08T00:20:00.000+12:002008-05-08T00:20:00.000+12:00Ahhhh "decorative" arts. It's akin to that one wef...Ahhhh "decorative" arts. It's akin to that one weft thread thrown out of sequence. It becomes all we see in the piece of cloth. The line between fine art and craft, perfection and hobby, or master aprentice.<BR/><BR/>I wish more people could have seen Pricked show in NYC. Traditional embrodiery skills tweaked enough to be classiifed as art.<BR/><BR/>Then again I am musing the idea that only we ourselves battle the lable. Just rise up and make it, Art that is. <BR/><BR/>And I'm gonna do just that....after I find a bucket to place under the roof leak. Thank goodness the garden is getting a drink this morning!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com