I find myself being so judgmental of a "critique" I recently attended.
The expert is a professor, a long time artist, of hispanic descent I surmise; somebody I should be proud to know and consider to be very credible in his opinions. Should is the important word here because I came away with a bad taste regarding the totality of the event.
With the first few paintings, he was not overly informative but he gave enough to the individual artists for them to go further with their piece. Then I noted his lack of constructive criticism, only doing a complimentary sentence or two on each piece. I understand that some pieces had very little to criticize, however we spectated-artists really want ideas on ways to keep our art pertinent.
For a few pieces that were totally not fine art, amateurish and with a complete lack of composition ...he was only able to complement. There were so many ideas these artists needed.
Then I thought about the rest of us. If those pieces were representations of good art, fine art...where are we, We that are serious about our hobby, our retirement vocation, our wish for a valid art show?
At the end of the day, I asked the expert "did he dumb his critique down" for us. He didn't know what I meant kind of fumbling with his words. Then the person that arranged this farce, said to me he wasn't dumbing down but being kind as other past critique-ers had totally been inappropriately too critical.
Whew! Feel better now that I have written about this. I will not be attending next year's luncheon however will be keeping my feelings to myself with fellow art club members. I am far too judgmental and un-nice for this kind of stuff. It's the first time I have felt like a little old lady doing my crafty pictures and do-dads.
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