Montecino, Sarah M.

September 2, 2023
BSN 1C Art Appreciation (A&H 100)

“The Line that Divides Art and Craft.”

The concept of arts and crafts has always been lumped together for centuries as the
same thing. Some would say, in order to achieve art, one has to go through certain crafts for it
is like a phase or stage into being a confident artist; whereas some would say, art is
completely different from craft, for arts is like a different level of creativity that attests one’s
imagination and creative mind while craft attests your skills on a certain category more. But
if we were to delve deeper into these two concepts, these two are alike concepts that are both
merged from the attempt to make something that is aesthetically appealing.

However, quote on how I described both art and craft as, “two alike concepts”. Both
may seek to reform a decoration in something, but there would always be a boundary that could
differentiate these two concepts. With that, I believe that the one thing that forms a straight line
in between arts and craft is modernization. Art has always been ameliorating for years and that
is evident from the transitions of the cave paintings in the ancient period, to classical Greek
and Roman artworks, to Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, and eventually
Contemporary. We used to have stick figures back then, until it evolved into artworks that are
defined and realistically accurate, and now into a new artwork and mostly made out of abstract
figures that was supposedly meant to hold such deep meaning depending on the perspective of
its audience. Those changes that took place within the various time periods of art was made
possible through modernization, for humans tend to develop and experiment more artwork
styles. However, for crafts, modernization may come its way, but the traditional process of
making the different sorts of crafts were still preserved and used to this day. An example would
be the origami, the same old folding of papers to create figures are still followed for there is no
other way any type of modern technology could be making and folding origami papers.

Art is always open for modernization. As long as humans still exist, we still tend to
discover something new to try every day, and we tend to subject art to change. However, in
crafts, old and traditional practices that was used by ancient people to create handicrafts are
still followed and learned to this day.