pdxjims opened this issue on Aug 19, 2005 ยท 54 posts
randym77 posted Sat, 20 August 2005 at 12:04 PM
"I also do agree the eye-patch and stripper outfit do not go together."...... that is NOT a technical or constructive comment. I don't like when someone tries to redo another artists work as if it were their own. The CONTENT of the image is the statement the artist was making.
I don't agree with this, actually. Art critique is more than just technical. It's also about the content, the message, the aesthetics, and that sort of thing. Frankly, I appreciate that sort of comment a lot more than "you missed some pokethrough on the sleeve."
Does it mean I will change the image, to conform to someone else's vision? Not necessarily. But I will take it into consideration. If someone finds something incongruous in the image, I want to know.
IMVHO, limiting art criticism to technical issues is like limiting literary criticism to spelling and punctuation.