That was a very nicely written and easy to understand post. I do have one observation though. It appeared that "Constructive Criticism" was equated with "complaint." I'm not sure that's quite accurate. As you point out, the goal in constructive criticism is to benefit the person recieving it. However, the goal of a complaint is usually to benefit the one who is complaining. It's possible that you used that term as a reference to how constructive criticism is sometimes received in the galleries rather than directly attempting to correlate the two. --- Part of the problem is that the term 'criticism' has a strong emotional content. Objectively it means the same as "evaluate." One can evaluate something and think it's totally awesome. However, the emotional connotation of the word criticism is very negative so even when one has the best of intentions (and think the piece is totally awesome) if that term is used it can stimulate a negative response.

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