<---Is design art?
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- unknown0
what people always seem to miss is that what is traditionally considered classic art, ie; the sort of work you'll find in Londons National Portrait Gallery is not what I would really call art as it was commissioned by the elite (nobility / religious orders) and was tendered towards their tastes and preferences/fashions of the time. In that case, the art could almost be considered design or perhaps more of a craft.
In todays market art is still very much a commercial concern and reflective of the fashions of the time - its just that as boundaries within society comedown what is considered controversial/groundbreaking one year is passé the next and so artists move on to 'something new'.
The real question is more fundamental - what is art?
This seems regressive but you really need to crack this one before comparing 'art' with something else.
I personally would not classify design as art, not even close, but then I wouldn't really classify a lot of 'art' as 'art'. Rather it is a product of its time and is largely commercially led.
- pepe0
art seems to contain a certain freedom that commercial design lacks because of the dependence of client feedback..... but then there is design for arts sake, in which people buy your designs as art not as a functional design.... i dont think there is a black and white answer to this question...
- ribit0
I think most of you are taking very narrow (parochial?)views of what 'design' and 'art' are...
...unless the question was meant to be about the narrow fields of:
- web design (or whatever we are meant to be talking about here)
- accepted or 'official' fine art...but was that the point of the question?
- kodap0
art can be personal experience turned into a public experience.
kodap
- chokethefat0
is design art?? hmmm..
- jarno0
i think design being a form of art is pretty much up to the designer. i'm guessing most of designers do their own personal stuff as well, along with all the public/client work. designers can use their creativity and artisticness pretty much with the client work too.
if you'd handed a brush to picasso asking him to make a painting about a rubber boot, and the painting must include a butterfly and a tree, would it not be art? :o
- corin0
I used to say that the difference between art and design was that design is functional, but i evntually went and looked up the word in the dictionary and found out I was wrong, it goes on about decoration alot, which obviously has not that much to do with functionality. I think the problem might be the fact that we are using two old words to describe something which has gone through a very major change in recent history. lets call it 'dart' instead and then everyone except for that small minority that plays darts profdesionally will be happy.
- neeko0
perhaps design is more like a tasty condiment on the sandwich of art.
- fuckfascists0
i find art in everything, and an artform to every action. perhaps im too broad in my definition, but i prefer to think of everyone as a different form of an artist.
- ribit0
for that matter EVERYONE is a designer (arranged the furniture in your house lately?)... some at a higher level than others.