Thursday, April 15, 2010

artifacts and art objects.

I cannot get my mind of the question, what makes an artisan different from an artist?
So i have done some research and came up with this:

The word artisan comes from Middle French word Artigiano, which in turn comes from artitianus from vulgar Latin. The direct translation means: To instruct in the arts, or skilled in the arts.

We all know a distinction of between an artist and artisan.
An artisan is a skilled manual worker, and an artist is someone who creates objects for purely aesthetic purposes.

But

Are those two tittles mutually exclusive?
Why cant someone create a purposeful object, with aesthetic properties?

People are many things, artists are not only artists in life, is it possible to create something both common and misplaced? Purposeful and purposeless?

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