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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by AndrewDucker on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:51AM (#12788944)
That's not art. That's craft.
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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by bholzer on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:58AM (#12789000)
Is art not a craft?
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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by hasbroslasher on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:11PM (#12789110)
Art and craft are different - art implies some semantic depth or statement about society.

Crafts are things like coffee mugs or portraits - they require immense skill and can only benefit from creativity, but don't really have anything to say about anything. That doesn't mean they're not good or valuable, though.

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