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When ist art craft and when is craft art??

Submissions are due 7/1, in a few days, for a jurried art show at the state museum. That said, I can not submit a bowl or other well turned object and hope to compete with more abstract creations (the art is of all types - sculpture to paintings, etc.).

I will "step over the edge" and create pieces that please me. If it also pleases them, ok. If not, ok. I do this for me and that is what pleases me.
 
Tom Coghill said:
Submissions are due 7/1, in a few days, for a jurried art show at the state museum. That said, I can not submit a bowl or other well turned object and hope to compete with more abstract creations (the art is of all types - sculpture to paintings, etc.). I will "step over the edge" and create pieces that please me. If it also pleases them, ok. If not, ok. I do this for me and that is what pleases me.
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Be sure to do what pleases you!

Whether Bowls can compete Depends on the jurors and the bowl. An elegant bowl can compete in most circles.

Recently Woodturning Artists in Florida have done quite well competing against other media.
John Moscow won two best in show awards for the booth (body of work displayed) something like $10,000 prizes.
Rudy Lopez won a best new artist a few years ago.
Both do excellent work with vert little done off the lathe.
John's work is mostly lidded hollow forms. Rudy's work is more expansive - hollow forms, extraordinary natural edge pieces, few translucent NIP bowls, and a few pieces with texture or pyrography.

Good luck,
Have fun
 
Tom Coghill said:
Submissions are due 7/1, in a few days, for a jurried art show at the state museum. That said, I can not submit a bowl or other well turned object and hope to compete with more abstract creations (the art is of all types - sculpture to paintings, etc.).

I will "step over the edge" and create pieces that please me. If it also pleases them, ok. If not, ok. I do this for me and that is what pleases me.
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Don't be controlled by, or buy into, others' ignorance or provincial tastes.

Submit your work. It's their loss if they reject it.
 
Tom Coghill said:
Submissions are due 7/1, in a few days, for a jurried art show at the state museum. That said, I can not submit a bowl or other well turned object and hope to compete with more abstract creations (the art is of all types - sculpture to paintings, etc.). I will "step over the edge" and create pieces that please me. If it also pleases them, ok. If not, ok. I do this for me and that is what pleases me.
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7/1. 2015? You must be a fast worker and finisher. I would need That many days to complete the finishing.

If I were entering a competition I would have done a prototype to couple of months ago and then made two of my final submission in case some defect shows up in one.
I have been know to rework finishes after submitting a photo.
 
Since Tom mentioned abstract art, I think it would be worth discussing what it means with respect to woodturning.

When we get beyond functional items meant to be used (food dishes, spoons, spatulas, rolling pins, toys, urns, knobs, plates, platters, pendulums, pipes, hats, handles, hair pins, boxes, bats, bobbins, balls, etc), then most everything else falls in the category of decorative items meant to be looked at and maybe even handled. Whether a decorative turned item looks like something recognizable or is a somewhat free form object, our perception of it being "abstract", I believe has more to do with how it nudges our reaction a bit further than thinking something like, "nice piece of wood".

Andy Warhol's Campbell soup can is certainly a recognizable object, but is it just a picture of a soup can or does it nudge our thought process to think outside the canvas. Even a simple bowl meant to only be used to sit on a shelf or table as a decorative piece can be abstract if we see as more than a wooden bowl.
 
Mark Mandell said:
Don't be controlled by, or buy into, others' ignorance or provincial tastes.

Submit your work. It's their loss if they reject it.
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I couldn't agree more. And as Al said, do what pleases you. If I couldn't do that, then I may as well work in a factory on an assembly line.

:-)
 
Hello and since I started this thread I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to it. There are certainly many good ideas here and it has been very helpful to me.

Best regards,

Robert
 
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