Crafter versus Artist

[merithyn]

Is that the end of the thread then?

Why?

I was only explaining how the term is often used, not that that's how it should be used.

I see many quilts that are works of art. Are they crafters or artists? I have seen amazing carved wood boxes that are without a doubt artistic, but is the creator a crafter?

[garbon]

There doesn't seem like much to discuss if crafter is a term that people aren't using.

I'd actually thought about some of the impressive things that I've seen knitted but then was like, I don't really have a term that I use for a person that would make like that and would be open to whatever one what to call one's self.

[CountDeMoney]

There doesn't seem like much to discuss if crafter is a term that people aren't using.

I DO 

[garbon]

There doesn't seem like much to discuss if crafter is a term that people aren't using.

I DO 

OK, crazy old cat lady.

[merithyn]

There doesn't seem like much to discuss if crafter is a term that people aren't using.

I just got done saying that it's a term that's often used to describe people do sew, knit, etc. I don't understand what you're saying.

I'd actually thought about some of the impressive things that I've seen knitted but then was like, I don't really have a term that I use for a person that would make like that and would be open to whatever one what to call one's self.

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Is someone who knits an artist, or a crafter? At what point does one cross over from one to the other?

[garbon]

I just got done saying that it's a term that's often used to describe people do sew, knit, etc. I don't understand what you're saying.

I meant people here.

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Is someone who knits an artist, or a crafter? At what point does one cross over from one to the other?

I guess it depends on the specifics of the object. If a tacky sweater, not sure that I'd support the label of either.

[Eddie Teach]

How about "artisan"?

[Admiral Yi]

An artist creates original work, a crafty sort of person executes more or less the same item.

[MadImmortalMan]

Yeah a crafter has to be able to reproduce his/her product with consistency. Jackson Pollack not so much.

[mongers]

Just to shake things up a little, here's a different sort of topic.

How do you differentiate an artist from a crafter? How do you define each of them, and what's the difference between them?

You don't, in my view the best of 'each' has plenty of the other informing it (or in forming it).

[garbon]

Yeah a crafter has to be able to reproduce his/her product with consistency. Jackson Pollack not so much.

So were Warhol and Duchamp crafters?

[crazy canuck]

How about "artisan"?

It has become so overused it is in danger of being meaningless. 

[dps]

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Is someone who knits an artist, or a crafter? At what point does one cross over from one to the other?

Well, perhaps we can bring in the subject of intent.  Does someone knit a sweater with the intent that it be worn, or with the intent that it be displayed as a work of art?

[merithyn]

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Is someone who knits an artist, or a crafter? At what point does one cross over from one to the other?

Well, perhaps we can bring in the subject of intent.  Does someone knit a sweater with the intent that it be worn, or with the intent that it be displayed as a work of art?

What if it's intended to be worn as a work of art?

[Ed Anger]

I crafted a short sword +5.