Don't you just love it when you here people at an art exhibit say things such as this.

When I go to anything art related from gallery opening to art sales and auctions I get to hear a constant parade of comments such as...

"That's nothing special" or "She just painted some lines on a canvas"

Obviously this is just a defect in the persons personality or maybe just insecurity but bad form none the less. Why is it some people just seam to feal better about themselves by tearing down others. I hear this in the business world alot too.

What cracks me up is when I do hear "Well I could do that!", is hey, why arn't you? As we all know, good artists and business people alike tend to make the difficult look easy to the public. I know when I hear someone say about a website that it came out of nowhere and was instantly a success is fooling themselves. The fact is it instantly looked like a success because you just noticed it and thousands of hours of hard work made it appear to come out of nowhere.

In art, it is the experience of the artist that makes it look easy. Although I will say for you hyperrealists out there that your works never looked easy to me.

I know the fact that my company has some successful websites is precisely because we have failed so many times at others. These people don't even bother to try and create something.

I look at lots of art all the time and there is art that I personally like and there is art that is not to my taste, but I still have a healthy respect for the artist who created it.

Ok, I'm off my soapbox now ;-)

Comments (3)

loriday said:

... I wrote a lovely response to your article, Brian. It was a magnificent rebuttal and it was long and well worded! I went to post it...it said I have to be logged in to post and so I checked to see if I was logged in...and I am...and my article went *poof* :"(

December 01, 2008

Brian Converse said:

... Sorry about that. If you haven't changed pages in 15 minutes the system thinks you went away and will log you out. When you went to check it thought you were back and logged you in. I'll see if I can change the timeout period.

December 01, 2008

rhonda said:

... When I see a demonstration of something new, I'm aware it is much harder than it looks, but I always like to try new things. Like the pumpkin carving video, boy it was really hard. I do like to listen to people at art walks, galleries, etc, that think everything is sooooooo easy.

December 02, 2008