Seni Kriya Dalam Kehidupan Manusia

Abstract

Craftmanship art as human cultural creation results in material  form reflects the level of civilization in their ages. Functional value as daily activity support becomes the main special characteristic. Visual­ization of the art tends to aesthetic, expressive and symbolic expres­sion of the creator's soul as the influence of refine arts transformation in general.  Craftmanship is closely related with materials, technique and  processes in which stressing high patience, precise and thorough at­titudes because handcraft, besides conceived as an art closely related with handcraft as one of its special characteristic, it is also the concrete result of an ability between the skills of the creator (craftmanship) and the instruments as the revealer of the creativity idea.  Craftmanship has been reaching on classical level such noble  creation as puppets, batik, and carved objects which are necessarily to be preserved and developed for the next generation for not to be extinct, ate by the fast of modernization dynamics.