Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: When biasness matters more than art??

3-DArena opened this issue on Mar 24, 2003 ยท 73 posts


dialyn posted Mon, 24 March 2003 at 11:14 AM

There are any number of people here who will complain about a lack of "art" in the galleries...but some of these will make non-art related remarks about subjects that don't reflect their own notions of beauty (and who declared that only beauty is the only allowable theme for a graphic). It is a narrowness of vision that is self-limiting. The theory is that people who participate in the galleries should be imaginative and creative, but yet they cut themselves off from all but a narrow band of permitted topics by insisting such things as, it must be about whatever their particular obsession is. There is nothing creative or imaginative about forcing my prejudices on someone else. And, I admit, there are subjects I find boring and redundant on the galleries...and I will say freely they aren't my thing...but I don't leave comments on the graphics saying that the person shouldn't do what they like. If the person in question had commented on the artistic merit of the graphic, that's one thing. But he commented on the weight of the subject, which is not relevant to the graphic as a piece of art. So he only wants boringly identical women in graphics...fine, but what kind of criticism is that because someone dares to be original and different? As a woman of size, I refuse to stay hidden for the sake of pleasing a bigot.