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Art v. Design

9/20/2016

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The fields of art and design collide and overlap in a variety of ways—leaning on each other and stealing from one another. 

Historically, design has connoted creative work in the commercial realm, whereas art has had other agendas.

Today fine artists will borrow from design (as in the work of Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Doug Aitken's 100 Years, below):
And designers mine the fine art world for visual inspiration (as in the music video for Drake's Hotline Bling, clearly referencing James Turrell's work).
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graham
10/3/2016 07:30:47 pm

good distinctions, we need to apply some critical theory to art and design borders

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graham
10/10/2016 07:09:12 pm

According to Experimental Jetset, a small independent graphic design firm in Amsterdam, striving toward a synthesis of art and design was quite an elementary characteristic of early modernism, possibly its most defining one. Lazion Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky were driven by the idea to unite art and the everyday , not as an added decorative layer but as something fully integrated into modern life.

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