BALLOON "ART" DOES NOT EXIST!
What we do is commonly called Balloon Art. Our clients, family and friends often refer to us as artists.
Art is a concept still much debated. What is art and what isn't art? When can we say that we are dealing with a piece of work of art and when with crafts?
It is obvious that an artist uses the material that makes it the best way to express his/her own emotions and show them to the viewer.
In this sense, the feelings you have, for instance, by listening to "Imagine" by John Lennon, is probably the same as the one he himself had when he was writing and singing the song.
To tell the truth, however, we must point out that emotions are not the only concepts that explain art.
But we should stay in our field of interest and try to place the concept of art into the world of balloons. We will certainly feel excited about balloons. But what kind of emotions arise in ourselves? An emotion that can be called professional based on technical aspects, or a feeling based on what the composition wanted to communicate?
Ironically, most of the time, the best works of art made of balloons were created by artists who did not know anything about the techniques of our discipline.
Other considerations should be made in the presence of other models of art in which the balloons are represented, such as photography, to see if the art is in the composition of balloons or in the photo that portrays them.
My opinion is that balloon art installations are very rare things.
Personally, I would tend to identify myself more as a craftsman.
A craftsman is the one who uses it, and adds deep knowledge, certain materials, equipment and techniques suitable for producing products that are useful for one or more reasons.
In our case we produce decorative elements.
As you can guess, in this view, the artistic element - emotion, message or concept - to get the viewer does not exist and, therefore, there is nothing like a work of art.
The emotions that balloons make in our clients are of all kinds, balloons represent their very own feelings as they use them for personal matters, and they appreciate the work of the craftsman.
I must add that my attempt is not at all to degrade our work!
Being a craftsman places us in a position to make a good figure without making any abstruse composition at times dictated by the presumption to be artists.
