The show goes on

(Photos by the wonderful Rancho Cocoa whose cute plushies are on show in Nancy.)

I know it's been two weeks since the Plush You show opened, but I'm still all excited having my plush on show and having the chance to share my Rag Pets with new people.

(Photo by Rancho Cocoa again.)

I'm very interested in the crafts/art divide and on how "art" is defined to begin with, so being able to take part in a plush art show is really cool for me.

I actually dug out my old notebooks in the hopes of finding my art philosophy notes. Sadly, I'd only written down the introduction of the subject into the notebook and I must have taken proper notes elsewhere...
I remember a theory by some philosopher whose name I can't really recall right now stating that art is only art if it's shown in a gallery. And then there's Wittgenstein's Open Concept of Art that I thought that it was one of the better ways of pinning down what is and what isn't art out of all the ones offered, even though it just leads to other problems trying to decide what qualities the definition is based on.
But no matter what philosophy you subscribe to, Plush You makes plush art and that in turn makes me very happy and proud to be a part of it.

Comments

[Holly]

It's so exciting to see your pets in situ! Although the poor things don't look too happy about the tags around their necks, hehe.

If you ever do find your notes on art vs craft I'd be really interested to hear about all the different theories as it's a topic I like to consider a lot too.

~Holly
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[Kitty Vane]

The poor dears are burdened with two tags, one I made (you can see a close up of Piia's tag here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnitzle/2933709406/ ) and one given by the organizers that has their info & price on it. They also look a little mussed by their trip, I don't think they had time to freshen up before the show. :)

I'll be looking for those notes; I remember I took a lot of them during the art philosophy course, since it really is something I'm very interested in and we were lucky to have a really good teacher for it too.

As far as craft/art definition goes, it seems that the general consensus is that crafts are created for a practical use, where as art is something that's created with just aesthetics in mind. Of course, it's not quite as black and white as that, since following that rule you get into what the intention of the creator of the piece was and then you're knee deep in opinions and thoughts and other such intangible things.

Sayraphim of "Page 63 of Your Manual" has a few really good posts about the art vs. toy divide, here: http://page63.blogspot.com/search/label/art%20vs%20toy

[Adrian Santana Navarro]

Your animals are so cute,i hope to get one as soon as I get the money!

Hugs
Adrian

[Kitty Vane]

Thank you so much for your kind words Adrian! :)

[fidget]

your plushies are amazing!