Small rant...
Jan. 25th, 2005 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnoDirected at posters in any of the photography groups...
Out of focus pictures are NOT automatically art.
Take a picture of your cat, dog, little sister, a mountain, a tree, a car, etc, etc, and it looks blurry???
Throw it away! Delete it, if digital!
Don't foist it on the viewing public and ask for commentary.
(I won't even go down the "and be nice" clause...)
Because the first comment will be "learn how the focus works on your camera"
{/rant}
Notes:
If you WANT it to out focus and it looks good, then it's ART.
If you got a cool effect, then it's found ART.
Posting a blurry pic and asking "why it's out of focus" is a valid question.
Out of focus pictures are NOT automatically art.
Take a picture of your cat, dog, little sister, a mountain, a tree, a car, etc, etc, and it looks blurry???
Throw it away! Delete it, if digital!
Don't foist it on the viewing public and ask for commentary.
(I won't even go down the "and be nice" clause...)
Because the first comment will be "learn how the focus works on your camera"
{/rant}
Notes:
If you WANT it to out focus and it looks good, then it's ART.
If you got a cool effect, then it's found ART.
Posting a blurry pic and asking "why it's out of focus" is a valid question.
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Re: On the other hand...
Date: 2005-01-27 10:23 pm (UTC)Criticism, in an artistic context, doesn't refer to adverse comments, but instead to the analysis and interpretation of a work. This may include negative comments, but doesn't have to.
Critique can refer to either a critical work (such as a review or essay) or to the general art of criticism and critical thinking (but that's a more academic usage).
The OED points out that US usage often interchanges the two, but American dictionaries usually list this out as an incorrect usage of "critique." It's often driven by an adverse reaction to the word "criticism."
If one wishes to make one's art stronger, acceptance of criticism (even if just to disagree with it) is very important.
If one just wishes to masturbate... well, as Eric Idle put it in the Not Noel Coward Song, "don't take it out in public, or they'll put you in the dock, and you wont... come... back."