studio craft

(noun)

A methodology of craft making in which objects are created more for aesthetic than for useful purposes.

Related Terms

Examples of studio craft in the following topics:

  • Glass

    • As a studio craft, glass as a medium tends to be used to make decorative rather than solely functional pieces.
    • Crafts are skills involving practical arts, and may refer to a trade or a particular art form.
    • Glass as a craft material lends itself to studio craft, a craft methodology in which objects are created for aesthetic rather than practical purposes alone.
    • In this way, studio craft differs from traditional craft, which generally refers to objects made out of necessity or for ceremonial use.
    • While this differentiation links studio craft to studio art in some ways, simplifying craft theory as synonymous with art theory can be problematic.

  • Culture in the Thirties

    • FAP provided funding for artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theater design, and arts and crafts.
    • In architecture and design, the 1930s was the height of the Art Deco - an eclectic style inspired by industrialization that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials.
    • The studio system was at its height, with studios having great control over creative decisions.
    • A lasting example of the studio influence was the Motion Picture (or Hollywood) Production Code of 1930 (known also as the Hays Code, after Will H.
    • The PCA enforced the code by reviewing and making suggestions on all studio scripts before they went into production, then doing the same with all completed films before issuing a PCA certificate.

  • Making the Art

    • While much of an artist's work is completed in the studio, they also rely on a vast support network outside of the studio space.
    • Most artists work in a studio, essentially an artist's workshop.
    • This workshop can be in the home (a live-work studio) or it can exist as a space that is maintained outside of the home.
    • Artists of all disciplines maintain studio practices.
    • Art studios are sometimes called "ateliers" .

  • Cinema

    • Box office sales leapt to new heights as the studio system became the dominant business model in movie making.
    • The public went wild for Talkies and movie studios converted to sound almost overnight.
    • The late 1920s saw the emergence of Walt Disney and his eponymous studio.
    • This jump-started Walt Disney Studios and led to the creation of other characters going into the 1930s.
    • Each studio had its own style and characteristic touches.

  • Modern Korean Art

    • The impact of this influence can be seen on revolutionary posters, lithography and multiples, dramatic and documentary films, realistic paintings, and grand architecture; it can also been seen to a lesser extent in areas of domestic pottery, ceramics, exportable needlework, and the visual crafts.

  • Adjustments

    • Consider our yoga studio example.
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    • Consider our yoga studio example.
    • Depreciation on studio equipment (500 for 25 months = 20/month)
    • Depreciation on studio equipment (500 for 25 months = 20/month)

  • What Is the Accounting Cycle?

    • You decide that Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood would be the perfect place to open an Ashtanga Yoga studio.
    • Even better, your friend Solomon, a certified instructor, has just moved to town and is willing to teach at the studio.
    • You purchase an additional $400 worth of mats, equipment, and clothing for sale at the studio.4.
    • You hurriedly prepare to open the studio, Highland Yoga, by July 1.
    • You purchase an additional $400 worth of mats, equipment, and clothing for sale at the studio.

  • Journalizing

    • Consider our example for the yoga studio.
    • You purchase an additional $400 worth of mats, equipment, and clothing for sale at the studio.Inventory 400 Cash 4004.
    • After borrowing money, you decide to withdraw some of your investment in the studio to pursue other opportunities.
    • Consider our example for the yoga studio.
    • You purchase an additional $400 worth of mats, equipment, and clothing for sale at the studio.

  • Jackson Pollock and Action Painting

    • In 1948 he married American painter Lee Krasner, and they moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio in the Springs area of East Hampton, Long Island, NY.
    • After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, turning to synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which were much more fluid than traditional paint and, at that time, were a novel medium.

  • Characteristics of Specific Substitution Reactions

    • The Friedel-Crafts acylation reagent is normally composed of an acyl halide or anhydride mixed with a Lewis acid catalyst such as AlCl3.
    • Some examples of Friedel-Crafts acylation reactions are shown in the following diagram.
    • Since the nitro group is a powerful deactivating substituent, Friedel-Crafts acylation of nitrobenzene does not take place under any conditions.
    • Friedel-Crafts alkylation, on the other hand, introduces an activating substituent (an alkyl group), so more than one substitution may take place.
    • Additional examples of Friedel-Crafts alkylation reactions are shown in the following diagram.