So I'm newly retired but have been #painting for a while now. People, upon hearing that I paint, will sometimes say things like 'I understand you are an # artist. Well, I paint. Maybe the decision as to whether I am an artist is in the eye of the beholder? What makes #art? I did a piece and referred to it as #craft. For indeed, if I do say so myself, it is splendidly done. The #drawing is correct, the shading beautiful, the image lovely. The viewer disagreed and said it was art. mmm. But I didn't create the image per se, I worked from a lovely photograph that I did not take. I think the photographer is the artist, I the crafter.
But a painting is different than a photograph; by reproducing the image with paint, with nuances of texture and shading available to me, did I make art too?
Is art the image, the mood, the expression? You're thinking, of course!
Ok, so if I take a photo of my garden, my child, the tree across the street, then reproduce that, is it art? Now you're thinking, no, not if just an accurate reproduction. But the great pieces of art that fill our museums, pre-expressionsts, are just that. Are they great craft instead of #great art???
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