Art just requires a “Beholder”…….until an “Expert” shows up!
That’s a nice piece, Al. Roberto Ferrar had a small cast bronze platter at the Louisville symposium. I didn’t realize it was cast, as he does a lot of cool surface work. I asked how he achieved his finish and he said it was just polished metal. “Ohhhhhh”, then it clicked.A few turners have used casting in metal and glass to great effect.I have a Trent Bosch bronze casting I continue to marvel at.
Yes…Why is woodturning being defined as art important? Let's go back to the original post in which John said I've always believed this definition of art is a part what keeps woodturners under appreciated and undervalued. So, recognition and money? Certainly some of the original AAW movers and shakers like Mark Lindquist and David Ellsworth were interested in having galleries take their work seriously enough to represent them and establish a collectors market separate from and more lucrative than that associated with the more plebeian, functional craft tradition.
#40 Well said.CNC is a process
Objects are art.
Just off the top of my head I know I’ve seen:As to AI, yeah that deepens the rabbit hole a bit. Does art require a human element? In all of the definitions we’ve seen in this thread, no one specifically mentioned “created by a human”.
I turn a variety of things. Sometimes I consider myself an artist, and sometimes a craftsman. Both are on equal levels, in my mind.I would ask those turners who consider themselves artists, what does that mean to you?