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Originally Posted by RonMartin
Oh Will sometimes you are a broken record. My answer to your question would be yes. Your answer to my question proves that assumption.
Any klutz can attempt to create art, not all can create it. No matter how dedicated they are.
And like I said on several occasions I haven't danced around answering your question. I have done my best to ignore it.
I just got tired of the argument
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For being so tired of the argument, you seem to always be actively involved in it....
Your logic is flawed Ron.
Without art, bonsai would be little more than houseplants. Without art, bonsai would be shown in Arts & Crafts shows, there would be no formal display, and no attempts to capture the artistic qualities in photographs.
Without art, there would be no wiring, no pruning, no shaping, no signature pots, no Tokonoma, no accents, and no custom stands because without an artistic goal, none of these things would matter in the least.
Without art, bonsai most likely never would have caught on at all, the Japanese certainly wouldn't have wasted time on it and I doubt very much if many of us would have been inspired by merely craft. It is the artistic bonsai that made us and still makes us go "wow."
Let's turn this around; Would, could there be bonsai without craft? Yes, of course, craft has very little to do with it.
Will