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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:58 pm
I was just thinking a little about the feminist art post by Sovawanea and I got to thinking about female artists and what women have been doing in the art world and it occured to me that in our culture women have been the one's to make folk art. Embroidery, knitting and making clothing, basket making, and those little crafty things that ladies do, they're all art but they've never really been well recognized in the art world as an art. it's classified as a craft, not an art. something mundane and less meaningful than say, a landscape painting.
so i guess i'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this. i'm also having trouble trying to find a point to what i'm saying so i'll leave this post as just an observation of mine rather than an actual conclusion about crafts as art.
discuss. i need you guys to help me out on this one.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:38 am
Well yeah that's very true. It probably has to do with the fact that to become a painter you studied rigorously... and learned anatomy by seeing dead naked men... totally in appropriate for women to see. *ahem*
Anyhow, it's only recently that women have become involved in such things as painting and sculpture... there are only 5 guys out of 60 girls in my program - visual arts.
Goes to show that women are gonna take over the artistic world!
Men wouldn't be able to see the long ours of study in the making of a quilt. He'd take it for granted... unless he knew how.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:27 pm
Im starting to notice alot more abstract female artists. I remember seeing an exhibit ... I forget who by and its killing me but ... The art was amazing. She used molds of a female body for one of her pieces and she used branches from a tree and the background ... well it looked amazing. Now that Im thinking about it. It has nothing to do with who made it. Its just great art and I love it.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:24 pm
It's like how when females made/make art, it's a craft. Ceramics, embroidery, knitting, printing, paper crafts--those have all been considered to be crafts--not art. It was only recently that ceramics became an art, opposed to a craft or something that was only functional.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:19 pm
You"re all wrong. Crafts have been considered an art. Go to an art museum and I bet that you will find an antiquities exhibit. Plates, vases, tapestries, cloth, needle work, etc. are shown and guess who made them, women. Also, what about native american tribes. Nost of their crafts are created by women and considered art. There is only no credit given towards them.
And crafts are art. There are still expressions of culture and utility, a semi-definition of art. Art isn't only about self-expression. It is about depiction and interpretation.
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