I don't know who said this, but I think it's very insightful. "There is art in craft and craft in art. But craft aims for perfection, and art aims for full expression."

I always figured that "art" was objects like paintings and artisan crafts were simply objects of art that also had a practical function -- like a vase or beautifully woven basket. The fine vase is a work of art that also serves a practical function, so it's an artistic "craft". Well, that's always been my take on it

I think "Creativity" is a great word to encompass them both

I'll never get tired of TED-Ed

Craft = series production / mass production Art = paralel production / unique production

I've always considered anything original created by someone to be a form of art.

Great guestion! The ability to mass produce something has, to some extent, help create this distinction. Whether someone is making a piece for some utilitarian purpose or not, the design of the object or placed on an object is the art. It is the uniqueness of a work that is the art and makes someone an artist. A craftsperson may be someone who can reproduce a lovely object that they did not design.

I prefer for there to be no distinction between artists and artisans. We're both craftsman, seeking to create what is practically necessary to fulfill human desires. Whether that manifest in beautiful cups or paintings, people want them, and are satisfied in them in ways other objects can't provide.

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Art is the expression, craft is the technique

Generally, the distinction I make between an artwork and a craftwork; Is if their value lies in their aesthetic alone, or if their value is in their practical application. There are of course points at which the lines blur. Where Artwork can be practical. And, where a Craft can be Artful. But, typically I find they are still mostly on one side of it or the other. I think the best of both worlds comes when one fully transitions to the other over time: If a painting becomes utterly ruined, but the canvas is repurposed for book bindings; Or if a farm implement becomes froze up with rust and broken to such a degree that the cost of repair isn't justified and it then becomes a lawn ornament.

Very useful discution. I think the characteristic of originality and inovation is what realy defines art.

Excellent! And in just 5 1/2 mins! Thank you Laura and TED-Ed :D (I do agree with the suggestion that 'art and craft' could well be replaced with 'visual arts'. )

a craft is the making of useful objects, an art is the making of expressive beauty

Very clear and precise.thx

Really great information! Thank you so much

I am Native American and come from the Hopi pueblo tribe in northeastern Arizona. In the Southwest archaeologists have actually discovered the transformation of pottery making throughout the years people have settled here. They now date prehistoric sties based on the types of pottery they and even call the time periods Pueblo I, II, and III. It's a mixture of the way the clay is fired and the types of designs people painted on them.

We make art through craft (Art is destination craft is a journey to that destination ) Art is Mirror and the way we hold the mirror is craft.

The body of work that is considered to be "art" may grow and change, but it doesn't mean that "craft" won't have a place in it either. There was a critical distinction drawn in the video that I think is important: Art is a product of individual innovation and creativity, while a craft is a carefully refined process that is preserved and adapted by groups of people. There are two essential elements in this contrast: first, the distinction of product vs. process, and second, individual vs. group. An artist makes art, but teaches and hones a craft. This expands far beyond mere "visual art." I'm a medical student. While a large part of my education has been geared toward understanding science, I am also being taught many skills: diagnosis, examination, history-taking, and others. These collectively form the craft of medicine. There's room for "art" in this as well; I may do an impressive job suturing a cut - that alone is a work of art.

Very well done. Truly informative.

A few years ago(1976) at the Denver Colorado USA Art Museum someone suggested to have a showing of the local area art work and skills and talent. I think that students from the many high schools and colleges and local art galleries and a handful of individual artists submitted their work. It was an exhibition that we will never forget because of the verity of different works of art... There was one that was made from a large number of clothes that were sewn together with a large number colors and textures in great detail. There were so many great works of art and so different. Maybe we'll start showing local artist works of art at our cafe and other shops and sell them to the highest bidder...... Let's make money, Honey.

Modern definition of art is something what inspires thought and changes status quo. So art must be something new and it does not matter if it is painting or prototype of iPhone.

Muy buen video aunque discrepo de la frase final "El arte y su definición depende de la perspectiva que se mire" pues según esto el concepto se convierte en algo subjetivo y visto desde ahí todo podría ser arte, por consiguiente si todo es arte, el concepto mismo se ve afectado pues pierde completamente su valor, como lo vemos en nuestros tiempos.

The two terms aren't mutually exclusive, they contain traces of one another and are contingent on who is using them. I think visual art is actually a more problematic distinction to make. It values vision above the other senses we use to interact with art and crafts, and undermines the tactility and materiality.

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A College, A College Classroom, A College Student, A College Graduate!! 4 words that came to me during my first days in Psychology class when in college that was prophetic for my 4 years of college! Terrill TC!

Art is taste, craft is skill. Art is the taste of the food and craft is the ability to cook it.

Crafty made video! thanks!

The eye of the beholder. That's all that really makes a difference.

I just remember having Arts and Crafts class, so they blend as far as I care.

Very interesting and precise documentary. About the art which doesn't evolve much in time, one of the greatest example is Bizantine art with its derivation, like the famous Russian Icons. They are almost the same in centuries. The reason was in the message they wanted the art to carry, and that was that God and the saints were powerful and somewhat the centre of the universe, while in Europe, more attention was starting to be given to the mankind and art developed somewherelse. But nobody would ever dream to say that bizantine art is primitive or that it isn't art.

Loved the video, but could we come up with a better term that wouldn't leave out non-visual artists?

This was very informative thank you. This is art ❤

Every time I go to watch one of these vidoes either the sound quality is so bad I can't make out the words or right when the lesson begins there is no sound at all. What is wrong?

Brilliant argument. As a student of Asian visual arts, I now have a better appreciation for why their arts have NOT evolved over the centuries, and that it is all right that they continue to preserve their visual traditions rather than change them.

art is in the eye of the beholder. ten thousand years from now, what we viewed as art may have very little to do with what is then viewed as art. art is constantly evolving, weather or not we recognize it.

Art is a picture weather using colour or drawing or painting craft is an actual object that is physical. So you can have an artistic crafted vase but you know that vase has designs and or colour which either been moulded into the design or been drawn or painted on

Why did that stone had ა. ერისთავი(a. Eristavi) written on it?

Come the illustrating of the description of being incapable of innovation and so not really a college graduate. There is as I engineered my eight college semesters as a Christian, I was acknowledged of the limited mind and the unlimited spiritual being us humans are!! Terrill TC!

This was really interesting and informative, thank you

Art is a reflection of the individual, craft is a reflection of the collective. Both aspects can be found in the same objet d'art.

very well placed the African mask beside Picasso, is well Known the great Master loved them and got lots of inspiration from them. On the other hand anybody who only repeats again and again his most successful artwork is an artist or just a craftsman?

Already watched this a couple of times, but I can't really differentiate the two.

Put it this way, you get couture fashion houses making all sorts of weird and wonderful footwear that has no life beyond its critical appraisal on the catwalk. The designers are pushing the limits of their own creativity and finding new ways to express themselves. This is a form of art. But the models can't walk in them. You then get steel toed boots made for working on building sites and trainers made for sport which also have another life as fashion items but would have no critical value within the world of fashion. The value here is in fulfilling a need and the commercial viability of the product. This is a form of craft.

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I was talking to this fiber artist and her opinion on the subject was that a crafter is a person who only makes things according to other peoples patterns while an artist is a person who creates something of their own design. As for what is craft and what is art I personally think anything handmade meant to be visually,or audibly appreciated is considered art while massed produced things are not art. "Crafts" is a world I relegate to describe the act of making things with my daughter who is 4 so if we make a potholder from loops on a loom that's craft but the pot holder itself is art.

Historically interesting and well written. I'm not sure the ending is really a useful way to put things though. Ever since Duchamp the west has gone by the rule that "it's art if the maker says it is", and it's a simple system that works perfectly well. If people don't understand that and refute that your art is art, then you can point out that their thinking is almost a hundred years out of date. However, that does mean that your craft will then be judged on an quite different set of criteria (and might well be seen as bad art), but that's what you put yourself up for when you call it art.

In some languages one word is used to describe both.

I'm impressed by the comprehensive nature of this content. A book with similar substance provided a wealth of new insights. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

There can be endless opinions of what is craft and what is art. Most probably art is an elevated form of craft. The problem with art is that there are many kinds of art so in a way it defies definition. Besides, the line between art and craft is often blurred. Eventually it's up to the viewer to define what is art and what is mere craft (GattoTheCat)

Massively underrated video!

Very interesting. I do crafts but every piece is unique even If I do the same design will be alike but not the same and that means is art.

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What's the difference between a history lesson and being straight forward?

Interesting. How about photography? And how about manipulating the captured image in Photoshop, after the fact? For me, the LCD screen is the same as an artists easel. Yes or no? Again, interesting!

Art exists because the West puts innovation on a high pedestal, which is a blessing to all of us eventually. The same impulse that created Art, also gave us space-ships and trains and planes. Being a Westerner, it's easy for you to denounce this innovative impulse, but being an Easterner, I see the utmost value in this break in tradition and the drive to create something new every time which speaks to its time better than a work preceding it.

Base on my understanding,The Art is described as an unstructured and open-ended form of work; for example by doing your expresses emotions, feelings, and vision. but in the craft denotes a form of work, involving the creation of physical objects, by the use of hands and brain. Art relies on artistic merit whereas craft is based on learned skills and technique.And we should do what I have learned especially by doing your insights mind.

Look at the pic on the right of 0:39!

It's all art . If the art has a functionality to it like a vase, it's just efficient art.

I think the right approach to making a distinction for art lies in the concept of "merit" if we're to temporarily adopt normative terms. See, a work is considered of artistic merit when the work itself demonstrates a peculiar attention in creation. This is to be contrasted with a more mundane habit of repetition and reorganization. Artistic work often allows us to peer into the mind of the creator in a way that makes the witness appreciate the method of creation. While craft merely focuses on capitalizing upon established conventions. However, an craftsman can sometimes be considered an artist if he displays a particular type of understanding on his work. For example, in popular culture, there are many examples of people regarding blacksmiths as artists. In Japanese culture, many blacksmiths have been romanticized as artists for the particular way they carried their work. Each sword they put out was created in such a way that demonstrated the particular creator's mastery and understanding of the craft. This insight and the way it shows upon the work is the distinguishing factor among other swords that were created solely upon learned practice and convention. To quote something I said in someone else's post that may help to illustrate the distinction: "There's both art and craft in music if we're to abide by the distinction about innovation versus redoing the same shit over and over. They're entirely compatible with the subject matter of the video. Bullshit bands like Bullet for My Valentine are bands that merely do things in a particular genre of music as a job, but don't have any artistic merit, since their contributions to music are nothing worth noting nor is there any merit the creation process. Their work is merely craft, since they're putting out things in a specific format with the particular intent to appeal to people that like things for the sake of the format. Other bands, like old Eighteen Visions and Converge challenge the conventions, take the elements, and manipulate them to make something of their own, something that will catch the eye of a person with a keen eye for peering into the maker's creativity."

Remember. Picasso was doing his paintings ..PLUS various kinds of ceramics too.

Who made arts and who made crafts?

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Because in many cultures of the world, the distinction between art and craft has never existed. Some works that might be considered craft are the cultures' preeminent visual forms. When art historians of the 19th century saw that the art of some non-Western cultures did not change for thousand of years, they classified the works as primitive, suggesting that their makers were incapable of innovating and therefore were not rrally artists. They didn't realize that the makers were not seeking to innovate at all. The value of their works lay precisely in preserving visual traditions, rather than changing them. In the last few decades, works such as ceramics and wood carvings have become more prominently included in art history textbooks and displayed in museums alongside paintings and sculpture. So they dispense with vague terms like art and craft in favor of a word like visual arts that encompasses a wider array of aesthetic production.

I disagree. The difference between art is a compositional manifestation of a thinking : what is the purpose of the universe? what is the mission of the human being? These ideas are reflected in the formal qualities, themes and subject chosen by the artist. Art is always breaking with traditions, not because traditions are not worthy, because art is always looking for its own freedom, its own possibilities, its own terms.

I've been saying this for YEARS. The Renaissance was when a bunch of well-heeled, powerful men decided to cash in on dividing "art" from "craft," declaring it spiritually and intellectually superior to weaving, pottery, etc. And conveniently, as they developed the "academies," they barred women from entering them. That cut the competition in half right out of the gate. While they jacked up their prices.

A lesson from Treetrunks.

now explain industrial arts

Excellent it’s visual art no different

We can see that in the short history of video games. A video game is now currently starting to be considered as art. Back in the 70s programmers would not even get credit for making games. Not until the 80s did we start seeing credits in video games, but the public never saw these as art. It was just a child's toy. Just like a quilt was just a blanket. Now we skip to today, and we have video game art exhibits, and musicals. The games that were just toys, are now art. This is because of 2 things I can think of; Gamers of the 80s, 90s are grown up and; gaming is more wide spread with immersive technology. Now art vs craft, if everything is considered art then that takes away the meaning of the word art. Art is perceived as having a sense of exclusivity and mastery. Example, not everyone perceives Angry Birds as art or even as a game. "Gamers" would put it as a casual game, not a "true game". I am torn on wither we can consider certain things art, I believe it will always be the public's perspective that will decide. Maybe 500 years from now the Mona Lisa will just be seen as a portrait of a woman and no longer art, or the museum that the Mona Lisa is in will be considered art. As the question is not the difference between art and craft, but what is art? Everything made is pretty much craft.

I have had a long thought on the subject a while ago with a friend and we came to the conclusion that the answer isn't about what the thing is, but what it is meant to be. While the goal of craft is to provide functional and sometimes virtual objects that serve a specific purpose, the goal of art is to provide functional to dysfunctional objects with the only purpose of existing for themselves. Here is a few example to make this definition easier to understand. A piece of music is art if it has been composed to exist as a piece of music. If a musician composed or even engineered a song to sell millions of copies, then it is the result of craft. If a song sells by the millions but the original intention was only to exist for itself, then it is still art as the intention remains. An other example would be the one of a light bulb. Most if not all light bulbs are designed to emit light to help us see in the dark. Some bulbs are also made to be astonishingly good looking. Still, they are primarily light bulbs and their function is to light a room, not to be exposed and studied for their artistic qualities. This makes them craft. If a bulb would be designed to look pretty to a point that would hinder its ability to light a room, then it would become art as the original intention wasn't practical. In other words: Craft is the creation of physical or virtual objects, most often beautiful than not, which have a specific purpose to serve in our lives. Art is the creation of physical or virtual objects, most often beautiful than not, which have the only goal of existing by themselves and might incidentally be observed, studied, judged or criticized and might even find a practical use post-creation.

I went to see the monalisa :-o so many people 0-o

I'm amused by the number of people who think art has no functional value. If something pleases your mind, to your mind it has value. If a functional item serves it's purpose, it pleases your mind. So I'm thinking that an item that is further from physical functionality is generally more art than craft, even though you can't make art without craft processes. If an "art piece" doesn't please your mind you are welcome to call it bad art or a useless end result of craft applied to material.

Craft not self inspired (pre paid and plan layed out) while art is more of a free style.

Dont forget about sumi ink and ink arts of china those are real artworks created by many philosopher and poet!!

5:17 like beauty

It’s art if an artist makes it. Craft if a crafter makes it

I would say that all crafts are arts.. but not all arts are crafts. When an art become mass-assembled tho, creativity might be lost there and thus the art value of it diminish-- tho will never disappear. Also curiously nowadays art are back into crafts such as many artists working together to make a movie or a game.

Craft doesn't have to be pretty it just needs to get the job done.

Don't Games fit right in there with music and movies as an art these days?

This video didn't really answer the question though 😅

So... is there a difference? or no?

In art it is the emotion that flow out. Whereas in craft no emotion is involved.

"Not seeking to innovate at all."

So.... after watching the entire video... it couldn't really answer the goddamn question. "Is there a difference between art and craft?"

Is craft a noun that could (or is) used to describe an object? A spoon is described as a "hand crafted spoon" not "craft". Craft is the method of creation, a concept which is supported by the video when they differentiated between artists & artisans. If craft is the method of creating an object then what is the term for the finished object? You can craft something, you cannot art something. Now that artisan guilds are no longer the standard, the definition presented for art seems difficult to apply to present day creations. Since things are typically mass produced is craft less valuable than art? The video seemed to devalue craft, as if somehow something lovingly & skillfully crafted is less valuable without being labeled art. I think trying to define something as craft OR art is unnecessary since both terms can be used for the same object (something the video didn't address).

So is this video art or craft?

the distinction comes from function also, what about non visual crafts and arts? poetry, literature, programming, music, maths? for one person a mathematics proof may be beautiful while for other it is purely functional, or worse, useless.

But how is music not an art?

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"art is form, craft is function" -me

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Actually I have a high school activity and I needed to see this lol, so my class does it too, so, Alejandra I love you, DEA XD

The easy answer is yes. On a linear scale from beauty to function, where does the object lie? A painting has no function, it can't keep you warm, or sift flour, or stir soup, it is useless as anything but a thing to look at; it is art. The content is irrelevant even if it has a purpose. A horse shoe has no value as art in itself, its value is protecting the horse's foot. It may be beautiful because it was well made, without flaws, and perhaps even visually pleasing to those who can appreciate it, but it is not art, it is a functional thing, out of sight, made for a purpose that does not include looking at it. Contrary to Duchamp, calling something art does not make it art. It's a fucking horse shoe. So, which does the object have more of, beauty, or function? Very few things, except maybe Falling Water House or a Bugatti Veyron are smack in the middle serving equally well as beautiful, functional objects.

Um music... And audio art...

The real problem began when the elevation of the craftsman to artist became self defined. I am of the opinion that there can be Art but Artist can never be defined during the lifetime of the craftsman who created it. Art must transend the temporary in order to really be Art. If it is just the latest Fad there is a better than even chance that it will quickly fade from our memories and any signifigance that was once thought to be so prevalant will soon be lost. A self definded Artist, one whose life is devoted to creating Art, is not capable of making that judgement as are most Art Critics. The one Universal Truth is that most great Art was never seen as great during the Artists lifetime. You say what about Picasso? I say wait another 100 years before we really have the answer to that question. Will Pollack still be considered cool or will his paintings be classified as acidental spolches of color? I do not know and niether does anyone else. Let us recognize great Painters and Sculpters etc. Lets us also call them Painters, Sculpters and Craftsman until future generations can convey the term Artist.

There will generally be craft in art, but less likely art in craft. The first iterations of current "crafts" could be considered art however. Your original take on a craft can become art, but recreating or abiding by logic to a preconceived result is craft, having the end in mind in something that already "exists". That's how I see it. Art is driven by intuition but quite often brought to reality through logic. For eg. Learning guitar can be a craft and playing others songs. Writing your own music outside a traditional formulaic genre etc. would make it art.

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