art vs design
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- bobmack
whats the difference. any thoughts?
- ********0
any thoughts?
bobmack
(Mar 3 05, 01:55)More than you.
- fifty500
Art is something creative that comes from the heart that's only purpose (that I've found) is aesthetical.
Design is planned creativity. It stems from a purpose, a problem, or a need.
- bobmack0
please, enlightment me
- ********0
bullshit.
art is a very vague term that's lost all meaning. art became illustration illustration became design design became art and robots became pleasure models. FInally!
- de4k0
design is functional
- fifty500
sorry, unfinished thought...
Design aims to fulfill the need, solve the problem, or display a purpose. It can be used to display information aesthetically but also usefully. It can be implemented to create something wonderous, but functional.
In some ways, design can be considered a form of art, but I don't think art can be considered design.
- de4k0
depends.
are we talking about 'high'art, fine art or just all art, as in the stuff your kid scribbles?
- weestu0
-ard or -art
suff.
One that habitually or excessively is in a specified condition or performs a specified action: drunkard.from dictionary.com
- de4k0
high art - Fine art, also known as beaux-arts, art that is of universal transcendence, having withstood the test of time and representing the epitome of artistic achievement, as opposed to low art, which is also known as mass culture. Until recently, a distinction was typically made between high and low art. Traditionally, high art consists of the meticulous expression in fine materials of refined or noble sentiment, appreciation of the former depending on such things as intelligence, social standing, educated taste, and a willingness to be challenged. Low art is the shoddy manufacturing in inferior materials of superficial kitsch, simply catering to popular taste, unreflective acceptance of realism, and a certain "couch potato" mentality. Although many earlier artists took inspiration from popular and folk art, the most systematic approaches towards blurring the differences between high and low art were taken by Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. Pop Art further weakened the distinction, and artists as various as Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Jeff Koons (American, 1955-) and the Guerrilla Girls (American), influenced strongly by the different branches of postmodern thought, have dealt it the further blows. It is not surprising, given for example that the song O Superman by performance artist Laurie Anderson (American, 1947-) reached the top ten of the pop charts in the U.S. and England, that video and camera artist William Wegman (American, contemporary) has appeared on television's The Tonight Show to promote a book of photographs, and that both have done segments on Saturday Night Live. In spite of this, one still wonders if the distinction still exists, albeit in a slightly different form. Few would seriously argue that the droves who follow televised wrestling matches and afternoon soap operas have any genuine interest in contemporary art. It is even less likely that the millions who read supermarket tabloids or romance novels would ever choose to read advanced art criticism.
- ********0
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- clerk0
design fills a purpose.
art is just what comes out from your creative impulses.
- ********0
http://www.metamute.com/look/art…
"Larry Shiner in his recent tome The Invention of Art argues that art is an invention of 18th century European society."
- kev_charlton0
Design is done by geeks.
Art is done by hippies.//
- numberoneson0
i thought art was design and design was art. semantics?
- The_Separatist0
Art is subjective
Design is reflective.Art is a two way line of communication:
Artist > Audience
Design is a three way dialogue
Client > Designer > Audience
That's the way I decided to understand it 5 years ago, and as a micro-theory, it still works for me.
- save0
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- vespa0
i disagree with fifty50 and clerk saying that art follows purely creative, aesthetic impulses whilst design fulfills a purpose/function.
Is emotional and philosophical growth not a valid purpose/function? That is what art is for. Design aims to satisfy a commercial/practical goal.
- Bluejam0
Artists are designers that hate being told what to create.
Designers are artists that have to be told what to create.
Art is for everyone.
Design is for a target audience.A piece of art can sell for millions.
A piece of design will help sell millions.
- fifty500
true, art can serve a purpose for the artist in the way of personal growth, but it does little else for the public other than something to criticise or place in the hallway of your house. design serves a greater purpose. You can design a chair, but you can't design a sculpture of a person (that design was done at birth).
There are different ways of looking at the purposes of art, but I think Bluejam's description was close, except I disagree that Designer's "have to be told what to create". I think designers can come up with their own ideas of what to create, but what they're designing has more substance and purpose than a sculpture or a painting.
- Rowland0
Lets get this straight dude:
Art: The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
Design: To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
To formulate a plan for; devise.
To plan out in systematic, usually graphic form