Quote Originally Posted by walterick
I think art is supposed to be subjective. I'd say let's leave it at that. If we're not going to define what art "is" for us in this forum, I think the only choice is to name it outwardly as "subjective" so everybody feels welcome, and there's no air of elitism or snobbery. If people post their art, and it sucks, then so be it. That's what we'll have to go through in order to get the really good stuff
Ugh. I agree art is subjective, but I also believe that there is a hierarchy.... and it's hard for me to explain. And I truly don't believe that I'm beling elitist or snobbish, however, since it offends people's sensibilities, I suppose some of my opinions would tend to make people label me as an elitist and a snob. However, I don't mean to put people's efforts down at all, rather, to elevate talent and genius to where it should be. I think in current American society, being PC is taken too far, and the playing field is levelled to the point of producing utter mediocrity. Brilliance is not strived for or rewarded, and I find that frustrating. But I'm heaidng towards an ill-typed rant, so I'll stop here. We welcome all art, beginner and all.


Quote Originally Posted by walterick
I don't know if this board was meant to post art for critique association and feedback, or just to talk about art as a concept in discussions. Any of the moderators care to clear that up for me? I tend to think it's the latter.
It's both. It's sort of ambigious, actually, because we wanted to leave a bit up in the air so the participants could sort of define what was going to go on here as well. We can don our black berets and sit around a Paris cafe, discussing theory for hours, or throw our work up not for a critique, like in critique forum, but to discuss it as art.

Megan