And knitting is an art, despite arthappy’s contempt and The Rat’s one-two punch of skepticism and false dichotomies. But at the end of the day, few people care if they’re in or out of the imaginary circle you’ve drawn for them. Maybe jazz isn’t music and knitting isn’t art and Buddhism isn’t a religion and Science Fiction isn’t really literature and LiveJournal isn’t really blogging. Jazz musicians, knitters, Budhists, sci fi authors and LJ users go about their business.

But it’s past my bedtime.

And yes, JACC, the knitting has given way to scrapbooking in this household. What else are you going to do with five cats, if you can’t scrapbook their stories?

Millions of Velvet Elvis painters just high fived each other…hehe!

I thought I heard something next door.

If you can break bones or split your face open by getting hit by the ball, it’s a sport.

Word.

Millions of Velvet Elvis painters just high fived each other…hehe!

I’ve got nothing against craft. In fact, like Alie said, I would consider craft to be a form of art. It may not be “fine” or “high” art, but it’s a form of art none the less.

And yes, good is subjective, but just because something sucks, doesn’t mean it’s not art. It just means it’s bad art.

If it is, so is kickball

I would say yoyoing is more a sport than kickball. And kickball is way more a sport than softball.

Why can’t knitting be both?

It is a novel pastime for people who want to think of themselves as “creative.” But this doesn’t make them artists–notwithstanding the valid exceptions that people have pointed out here. (Note: 54 million knitters = not the same thing as museum textile departments.)

The only reason I said that this is not art is because Max had categorized it as such. It was just a glib statement that I tossed off for giggles, though it indicates that I do strongly take exception to our culture’s directive to pat ourselves on our backs just because every Joe, Jim, and Jerry can weave two strings together.

If that attitude is elitist, so be it. There’s too little time to sift through all the crap that people make to care about such hackneyed namecalling.

Well, goodis subjective opinion.

What do you have against craft? Does it have to be art to be good?