Paloth opened this issue on Nov 11, 2007 · 95 posts
arcebus posted Sun, 11 November 2007 at 7:55 AM
Quote - And yet, and yet, and yet.... he makes some very valid points, just the same. If someone is cranking out 100% canned image day after day, are they really on the same plane as Michelangelo? Plainly, no.
Nobodys work is on the same plane as Michelangelo, nor on Rubens', Rembrandts', van Goghs', Picassos', Dalis', Fuchs', mine, or yours.
Not to talk about you or me - the other gentlemen mentioned above where masters in showing their excellent talents in COMMUNICATION USING MATTER.
If anybody produces something as a piece of art, there is a communicative target in it, no matter whether the artwork is a painting, a sculpture, a dance, a song or a digitally created image. It's good, if it communicates. 'cause only if it communicates, it can touch somebody. If it doesn't communicate, it's either masturbation, or a fraud.
This does not mean at every piece of communication is "art" - needs some craftmanship, too, to handle the communicative tools. And of course by far not everything made with Poser is good. But it's also not part of the qualification that a virtual image has to be created by the use of Lightwave, Vue, Maya or anything else.
If somebody can use Poser to communicate and touch, let him/her do this.
The way this Jin guy is argueing around simply shows, that he is completely unable to communicate, has not got the least amount of craftmanship in COMMUNICATION - which means, he is unable to touch (maybe except himself). That, of course, is his problem, not mine. But if somebody stands up and wants to make RULES for art, a MEASURE for it, he should have left the world the day the Nazis 3rd Reich was over.
As long as he doesn't show that he can handle even the most primitive tools and rules of communication, he must not be allowed to judge, because he is not an artist but something else that starts with an "a".