What makes me right, is that my art shows things, and from those things > ideas wheras the paintings (if one could even call them that) shown in Post # 16 show NOTHING. And for the art world to highly rank "art" like this is WRONG.
Well, that's your opinion. Yet, despite your opinion, someone got paid bank for a canvas with three bars of color.
It's pretty clear that it's driving you nuts...
LOL!!
You said >> "
"it's hardly my place to say they shouldn't be able to because their photos look like the works of children.
I don't make myself a better photographer by being critical of other photographers."
Yeah, that is pretty much saying being unable to being critical of other photographers. I stick with what I said. You spoke the original words, not me.
That's right, I did.
But I never said I
couldn't criticize them, because I certainly could. I'm saying I
don't criticize them. I choose not to, simply because it would make me look petty and sad, much as it's making you look petty and sad.
I'm very active in our local music community. Every so often someone will get up on stage and they're just, in my opinion absolutely horrible. Certainly I
could criticize them, but what would be the net benefit of that? They might be a horrible singer but, hey, they're up there gettin' paid, so good for them!
The bottom line is that being critical of someone or their work isn't going to make yours any better or more well received. Literally the only reason to do it is borne from jealousy...
"taking umbrage" - dont know I was doing anything of the kind. You're entitled to politely say anything you choose, and I'm entitled to do the same including disagreeing with you. But "umbrage" ? Not hardly. I'd say that's in YOUR head, not mine.
Let's get something straight here, OK ? You've got a lot of gall talking to me about umbrage. If anybody should be offended, it is ME, not you.
Um, do you know what the word "umbrage" means?
It means to take offense, which is exactly what you've done...
In post # 10,you came at me like a pitbull. Here's some of what you said (in what is supposed to be a civil exchange of ideas) >>
You think that's acting like a pitbull?
Wow, I had no idea you were so delicate...
You said >> "You're pathetic."
In my opinion, you are, simply because you feel, for whatever reason, qualified to rip apart someone else's art. I think that's pathetic...
Then you insulted me with labeling me as >> a textbook example of jealousy... (which is as ridiculous as it is shortsighted) Again, YOUR head, not mine,
Your OP oozes jealousy. That's not an insult, that's a statement based on what I see from you. If you don't like it, change your approach...
Then you attacked me with >> "You just demean the artists."
But that's exactly what you did. Again, if you don't want to be called out for being a petty little simp, maybe try not being a petty little simp...
Then you said >> You can't possibly be more bored than a person who watches a 35 minute video of an artist explaining a painting on You Tube... More insults
Also, note that people who play the mandolin (or violin) would find both the painting and explanation very interesting. Those who are ignorant of those instruments, would find it boring.
Well, as someone who plays guitar, bass, mandolin, uke and banjo, I find it boring. Don't assume you know how every musician is going to react to your video...
Actually, if you read the title it doesn't say Have you seen the artists ? It says have you seen the PAINTINGS ? So if anyTHING was demeaned, it was the paintings and the art "World" (as the title says) which admires these laughingstocks. And the reason why I demean the paintings (like the ones in Post # 16) is because, in my opinion, they DESERVE to be demeaned, along with the art world that boosts them.
Semantics.
But I'll play your silly little game: You say the paintings aren't art. Are the people who created them artists?
I disagree that what I've said make me look jealous and bitter.
I know you do.
But your opinion on the matter is of no consequence, and people rarely recognize their own poor behavior...
Maybe you think along those lines, so you think others do too. I don't. I just make a point that should be made, and nobody else has made the kind of negative suggestions that you have. Generally the responses are positive.
And, yet, you attacked those who said your work looked like crap or was done when you were in a high school...
If someone wants a blob of paint on a canvas, and nothing more than that, fine, let them have it. But that's not the question here. The point is the art world boosting "art" which is frankly nothing at all, and at this point you are doing nothing more than coming up with things to argue about.
One man's art is another man's garbage. You need to get that through your pointed little head. The art world apparently disagrees with you...
I get the feeling that you argue just for the sake of arguing, and you are f-cking up a really nice thread, and I wish you would go away. You're just a nuisance. You have said what you wanted to say. It's in print. I read it. Message received. Now GO AWAY, or I will report you for thread derailing, which is quite what you're doing.
First off, dummy, don't pretend that you're in any position to tell me what to do, because you're not. I'm going to remain on this thread, and I will comment on the contents of this thread as I see fit, so you should probably get used to that idea.
As far as me derailing the thread, I've been discussing the thread and what you've posted in it. How is that derailing anything? Derailing would be if I commented on that really bad hairpiece you're wearing in that video and then talked about other bad wigs I've seen. But I've not done that.
So, yeah, feel free to report me. There's nothing I've posted in this thread which is discussing something other than what's in this thread...
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