telophase: (Matsuda - teh drama!)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2005-05-23 04:32 pm

And more advice.

Yet another crosspost from my DeviantArt journal.
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1) WTF are you people getting this idea that digital art means the End of Art As We Know It? Dude, just because some guy posts a crappy Poser render in his gallery doesn't presage the downfall of Western civilization.

2) Corollary to #1: anybody who complains that digital art is cheating or not art is strongly suggested to go do some research into what people were saying about photography 150 years ago when art photography started to come into vogue, and exactly how wrong they were.

3) Art is in the eye of the artist, not in the tools. Whatever tools it takes to get the results are fine.

4) You also cannot judge a work of art by the process unless you're talking performance art: you are stuck with judging and interpreting the final piece that the artist shows you. If you disagree and think the process is the most important part, let me inform you that all of my works are done using pigments I mined myself, ground into dust under a full moon, mixed with Tibetan yak butter that I collected and churned myself, and finally applied to handmade paper using special techniques that have been handed down for generations in my family, never to be written down. The fact that it produces works indistinguishable from those that have been slapped down on a lightbox and shaded with #2 yellow pencils is irrelevant, because as you say, the process is what you should be judging it by, not the result.

5) Being a published author does not exempt you from being an idiot.

6) Having an advanced degree does not exempt you from being an idiot. I should know. I've got several and I am often an idiot.

7) Conversely, if someone has a degree in a subject, they probably do know slightly more about it than your average Kmart stock clerk and probably should be listened to slightly more on that subject than the clerk. OTOH, they should never be trusted to stock shelves. Especially if they hold a PhD. Disaster lies in store that way.

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