I agree in the sense that creativity is a misconstrued thing. Many people think it has to appeal to a mass, that's not being creative that's being productive, especially if your intent is to sell. Many people also confuse "being creative" with "being intelligent". I remember when the news came out that teens smoking marjiuana caused brain damage there was the rebuttle on how creative it made people.
I can say from experience intelligence sometimes gets in the way of creativity. Creativity is not defined thinking, intelligence more often then not gives you too many rule sets that you have memorized. You think of something cool and then your brain goes, "Well it sounds cool in this fiction project of yours but the laws of physics says..."
Anyway what were we talking about again? Oh yeah. I do think artists should feel welcome, having everything open to critique "equally" will result in the more abstract and smaller audience being skewered by the audience of more general works who aren't interested in the niche. In the end all art is going to have people who like it and people who could care less.
In the end, if you want people to favor your "critiques" or take them seriously, you have to build up a relationship with either the specific artist or the group of artists as a whole. If you're some joe smoe they don't know, they're going to tell you to go.
I agree in the sense that creativity is a misconstrued thing. Many people think it has to appeal to a mass, that's not being creative that's being productive, especially if your intent is to sell. Many people also confuse "being creative" with "being intelligent". I remember when the news came out that teens smoking marjiuana caused brain damage there was the rebuttle on how creative it made people.
I can say from experience intelligence sometimes gets in the way of creativity. Creativity is not defined thinking, intelligence more often then not gives you too many rule sets that you have memorized. You think of something cool and then your brain goes, "Well it sounds cool in this fiction project of yours but the laws of physics says..."
Anyway what were we talking about again? Oh yeah. I do think artists should feel welcome, having everything open to critique "equally" will result in the more abstract and smaller audience being skewered by the audience of more general works who aren't interested in the niche. In the end all art is going to have people who like it and people who could care less.
In the end, if you want people to favor your "critiques" or take them seriously, you have to build up a relationship with either the specific artist or the group of artists as a whole. If you're some joe smoe they don't know, they're going to tell you to go.