More Awesome Art Crit From My Mom

[docbrite]

On "Pocket Hurricane Relief": "That one up there that looks like a bunch of smears, that's kind of stupid."

On "Buried Alive": "And that one, that's not good. It looks like a three-year-old did it."

On a new one I haven't posted yet: "Not very attractive. I certainly wouldn't want it in my house."

Comments

[muuranker]

Not very attractive. I certainly wouldn't want it in my house.

William Morris was, I think, perfectly right when he said "If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful".

One of the uses of art is to discomfort - and if you want your home filled with cushions, then discomforting art doesn't have a place in it, any more than it has a place for chairs that make you sit up properly - this is no judgement on the art, or the home maker, just the way it is.

Personally, I have discomforting works in my office (I once considered all the images, and realised the only ones which were not concerned with violent conflict were one of a mental health hospital, and two of my cats, both of which had Man from U.N.C.L.E. magazines in them) than in my home.

Your work often discomforts me. It works.

[eglantine_br]

It makes me think. And I do not have the feeling that it is instructing me on what to think-- which some art does.

[50_ft_queenie]

Mothers, eh? My SO and I just acquired a lovely new cat from a local cat rescue group. For $175, you get a cat that is microchipped, spayed/neutered and full vaccinated. That fee just barely covers their operating costs. My mother commented that $175 was a lot to pay for a discarded cat.

*head desk*

Critics

[ext_1489139]

Everyone is a critic when they don't get what your trying to do. You have no idea how many people have asked me to paint them pretty pictures and you can draw a heck of a lot better than i can.

[queenanthai]

Welp, you're probably doing something right then. :D