Difference Between Arts and Craft || Art & Craft TALKS

The Difference between Arts and Craft is that Art is the use of imaginative skills along with one’s emotion. Whereas Craft refers to any skill to create some items or products like handicraft items. 

The world is a beautiful place because of nature’s creativity and beauty. And the best output of creative minds are Art and Craft. But the ironical beauty about them is that they are distinct features among themselves.

Let’s have a look about their differences:

COMPARISON Parameter	ART	CRAFT
Meaning	Art is a lovely way of expressing a person’s desires and emotions in an artistically visual manner.	Craft refers to an activity, which involves the creation of tangible objects with the use of hands and brain.
Based on	Imagination power	Learned skills and technique
Serves	Aesthetic purpose	Decorative or functional purpose
Emphasizes	One’s imagination, ideas & visual expressions.	Right use of tools and materials.
Quantification	Difficult	Easy
Reproducible	No	Yes
Emergence	Heart and soul	Mind
Result of	Innate talent	Skill and experience
Core	The core of an art is that it emerges from various inner emotions.	The core of craft is creative results achieved on skills.

 

Art with examples:

As said earlier, Art is the creative expression of one’s emotions. Let us understand it with an example:-

 Suppose any one watching an entertainment show (like Dance) watches the show because of his/her liking for it. Here the dance is a form of art as it involves the performers emotion for their work as well as viewers, because they entertain themselves with the beauty of performer.

 Both viewer and the performer are experiencing a form of art. Likewise any person doing any specific work with emotion involved in it can be referred to as an “Artist”.

 

Some more examples are Singing, Acting, Drawing, Print-making, Photography.

Craft with Examples:

Craft is any skill to create some product. It requires human knowledge and techniques along with physical work. 

Let us understand with an example:-

Suppose a person visits a village fair and buys certain handicraft items. The handicraft item can be any pottery or paperwork, which involves a certain knowledge and expertise to build. 

These items are nothing but crafts. Here no emotions are involved. Decorative Art, Studio-crafts, glass art, woodturning, and weaving are some other forms of Craft.

Key Differences between Art and Craft

Art is described as an unstructured and open-ended form of work; that expresses emotions, feelings, and vision. Craft denotes a form of work, involving the creation of physical objects, by the use of hands and brain.

Art can’t be copied as it depends totally on one’s emotion, whereas craft can be copied by acquiring a particular skill. Creativity comes from craft whereas Art enhances beauty.

Craft can be quantified easily but art provides qualified results. Art comes from one’s inner soul (or emotion) whereas craft is work of the mind. The basis of art is artistic merit but craft relies on learned skills and techniques.

 

Curiosity Questions:

What are different types of crafts?

Craft has many types and covers a huge variety of products under it.

They are as follows:

1.    Wood Craft – Making furniture, modified sculptures, wood carving, wood embossing, etc.

 

2.    Textiles – Embroidery, knitting, quilt making, lace making, weaving, etc.

 

3.    Paper Craft – making a collage, paper games, Paper Mache, paper printing, etc.

 

4.    Pottery – pots, sculptures, etc.

5.    Jewelry – designer necklaces, rings, hairpins, etc.

 

What are different types of art forms?

Everything which is being manufactured in this world is a form of Art in one way or the other. But the art is basically classified into 7 types.

They are as follows:

1.    Sculpture – making human or animal sculptures.

 

2.    Painting – includes different styles of making photos and paintwork.

 

3.    Music

 

4.    Dance

 

5.    Poetry

 

6.    Architecture

 

7.    Social Sculpture

 

How does art shapes the society?

Art shapes society in many better ways like it helps in communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories.

Art is often a vehicle for social change. It can give voice to the politically or socially disenfranchised. A song, film or novel can rouse emotions in those who encounter it, inspiring them to rally for change.

 

Conclusion

From all the above findings, one can easily corelate and differentiate Art and Craft. Both are wonderful aspects of a human being. While Art comes out from oneself inner emotions, crafts draws our attention towards creativity through skills.

 

 However, art is the unique expression of emotions that are more likely related to an individual’s emotion whereas craft is the tangible output of skill and talent. Art is a term that portrays something that comes from the heart of an artist. It speaks about the emotions and feelings of an artist. It is also the result of natural talent in a person.

 

Similarly, in today’s modern era, the term craft is mainly used to refer to a craftsman. Craftsman are people with skill and technique to produce  hand-made goods or ”handicrafts”.

 

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