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I think art has more to do with the motivation than process. Try to imagine the difference between a stone sculpture and carved stone masonry detail. One is art and one is craft. Craft at it's highest level can transcend and become art, but what it is the gap it transcends? In earlier times if you wanted a piece of furniture you had it made by a craftsman. Now if you had the same piece build odds are fair that he or she might consider themselves an artisan furniture maker. If you sit for a painted portrait is that art? What if you sit in the same pose for a photo at the sears portrait studio? Is craft or medium the difference? If we accept a painting by a master as art, what about a poster with the same picture?
In the end I suggest that much like the famous obscenity quote: I don't know what it it is, but I know it when I see it.
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