ART AND CRAFT

                                            Art and Craft 

Art and Craft have been an integral part of human culture for centuries, providing a means of self-expression, communication and connection. Art and Craft describes a wide variety of making things with one's own hand. Art and Craft encompass the wide range of activities, Visual art, Textile art, Paper craft, Digital art, Folk art. It is essential to human expression allowing individuals to convey emotions ,ideas and experiences through various mediums. Arts and crafts is usually a hobby. Both children and adults enjoy arts and crafts. Children in schools may learn skills such as painting, drawing, and paper craft or making things with all sorts of material.

The Arts and Crafts Movement began in England in the 1860s as a reform movement. Its primary proponents were John Ruskin (1819-1900) and William Morris (1834-1896). John Ruskin, its philosophical leader, was the most influential of all Victorian writers on the arts and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelites believed the medieval world was purer in form than the post-Renaissance world because it was more closely tied to nature. Ruskin's book The Stones of Venice (1853) had a great impact on the intellectuals of Victorian England. In it, he made a direct connection between art, nature, and morality-good moral art was nature expressed through man. While Ruskin built the philosophical foundation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, it was William Morris who became its leader. Morris took Ruskin's ideas about nature, art, morality, and the degradation of human labor and translated them into a unified theory of design. By doing so, Morris successfully wedded aesthetics and social reform into the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Elements of Art and Craft

  Here are seven elements or art and craft

• line
• shape
• space
•  value 
• form
• texture
• color

Types of Art and Craft

There are five types of art and craft 

• visual art (painting, drawing)
• textile art(sewing, embroidery)
• paper craft(card making, origami)
• digital art(graphic design, photography)
• folk art(wood working, pottery)

VISUAL ART

Visual arts refers to art forms that express their message, meaning, and emotion through visual means. Visual arts may be categorized as decorative, commercial, or fine art, such as painting, photography, or sculpture. Art is usually subjective and may be interpreted in various ways. Still, one commonality of all visual art forms is to communicate visually, without the need for the other senses such as hearing or touch.

TEXTILE ART

Textile art is an art form that uses textile materials such as yarn, string, and fabric. Textile artists use a wide range of techniques to produce their works, including knitting, crochet, weaving, embroidery, knotting, or braiding fabric or natural fibers.

PAPER CRAFT

Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layered. Papermaking by hand is also a paper craft.

DIGITAL ART

Digital art is any artwork that draws upon digital technology as an essential part of its creative process. It encompasses a wide range of techniques, from digital drawings, paintings, and illustration, to photos, videos, and even sculpture.

FOLK ART

Folk Art can be described as art that is of the people, for the people and by the people. These artists are interested in making art that tells stories about daily life or the culture of their community.