Crafts appear to have been segregated from the artistic disciplines of painting and sculpture, even though many of the materials
used are exactly the same. Why do you think that traditional craft media, such a ceramics, textiles, wood, and metal, have been segregated from other artistic disciplines? Do these differences in classification imply differences in value?
Traditional craft media has segregated from other artistic disciplines perhaps due to the material they worked with that made it craft i.e. textiles, ceramics, glass hence seem to fall into the craft category regardless of their intention as maker being an artistic one.
Nevertheless, it is surprising that The Starry Night has become so well known. an amalgamation of several different church spires that Van Gogh had depicted