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Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of
activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's hands and
skill. Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern
inventions.
Most crafts require a combination of skill, speed, and patience, but they can
also be learnt on a more basic level by virtually anyone. Many community centres
and schools run evening or day classes and workshops offering to teach basic
craft skills in a short period of time.
Now there are so many modern arts practised all
over the world. Some of them are Pumpkin carvings, Sand sculpture, ice
sculptures, Butter sculptures , shadow arts etc.
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a late 19th century design reform and social
movement. Its proponents were motivated by the ideals of William Morris and John
Ruskin, who proposed that in pre-industrial societies, such as the European
Middle Ages, people had achieved fulfillment through the creative process of
handicrafts.
These activities are called crafts because originally many of them were
professions under the guild system. Adolescents were apprenticed to a
master-craftsman, and they refined their skills over a period of years in
exchange for low wages. By the time their training was complete, they were
well-equipped to set up in trade for themselves, earning their living with the
skill that could be traded directly within the community, often for goods and
services.
The Industrial Revolution and the increasing
mechanisation of production processes gradually reduced or eliminated many of
the roles professional craftspeople played, and today "crafts" are most commonly
seen as a form of hobby or art.
The term craft also refers to the products of artistic production or creation
that require a high degree of tacit knowledge, are highly technical, require
specialized equipment and/or facilities to produce, involve manual labour or a
blue-collar work ethic, are accessible to the general public and are constructed
from materials with histories that exceed the boundaries of western art history,
such as ceramics, glass, textiles, metal and wood.
These products are produced within a specific
community of practice and while they differ from the products produced within
the communities of art and design, the boundaries of such often overlap
resulting in hybrid objects. Additionally, as the interpretation and validation
of art is frequently a matter of context, an audience may perceive crafted
objects as art objects when these objects are viewed within an art context, such
as in a museum or in a position of prominence in one's home.
There are almost as many variations on the theme of "arts and crafts" as there
are crafters with time on their hands, but they can be broken down into a number
of categories.
Now there are so many modern arts practised all
over the world. Some of them are Pumplkin carvings, Sand sculpture, ice
sculptures, Butter sculptures , shadow arts etc.
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India
Art
India Art boasts of links, among other
things, to various Indian artists. It also showcases their work.
Exotic
India
For Indian art, miniatures,
culture, handicrafts and traditions, check out this site.
IndiaWorld Art Gallery
It offers you a spectrum of Indian
arts for sale, including works by artists like Rekha Rao, miniature contemporary artworks
from Sakshi and more
Indian Arts on line
Khazana is a retail store offering collectables from India, Nepal and
Thailand. Provides our customers with quality works of folk and fine art
National Gallery of Modern
Art
The collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art essentially
comprises painting, sculptures and graphics mainly by Indian and to some extent,
international modern artists.
The Art of
Kerala
Lists the artists of kerala anfd art gallery
Indian Art News
Latest news about Indian Art & Artists
Raja Ravi Varma
The prince among painters and a painter among princes. The great
Indian painter
The Arts &
Craft Society
You can find tradition of the Arts & Crafts Movement of Great Britain .
Every month you'll find a new feature here; usually reprints from various publications .
It provides a place where you can exchange opinions with others and this site is
the extensive, searchable Archives, and links to library and museum collections.
Meditteranean Art
& Architecture
This site offers access to a wide variety ( about 16,000 images ) of archived
images of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance architecture and sculpture. There are
several of ways to search for images, including a search option, and an alphabetical list.
World Wide Arts Resources
Very good Arts reference site. It offers the definitive,
interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the
Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing
arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings and more can be can be
accessed.
Art Source
ArtSource is a gathering point for networked resources on
Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the
net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians,
etc.
Civilized Explorer art on the Internet
It gives the table of contents of art-related web pages. Several
are galleries exhibiting digitized images of art from conventional media.
Lavanya-Indology
explores the heritage of Indian art and architecture, including prehistoric rock
art and Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jain art.
Madhubani
Painting: Women's Folk Art of India
folk paintings by women village artists in north India. Online exhibit with
introduction.
Mughal Miniatures
a gallery that exhibits scanned images of Mughal miniatures, also includes brief
historical information about Babur, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, and others.
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