My past critiques have been all pretty well, some constructive, some really well, but it was never this bad before, and it left me repeatedly cursing anyone who opened their mouths. The only thing that made me so upset was that every week we would meet with our professor twice to go over our project, for this one I got the go ahead for this assignment after I had explained my ideas and during the crit he seemed to ask the most questions and not understand anything anymore as if his memory was erased of all of the things I had explained to them. So in the midst of me having to defend all of my reasonings I looked at everyone like they had five or more heads, but it also clarified a lot of things for me as an artist.
Up to that point in art school I had always believed that your work should do the talking for you and there shouldn't need to be any sort of explanation by the artist because the for should speak for itself and carry out a meaning. I thought that it should stand on its own and not rely on the artist to reason for it. I still believe this, but I guess you could say i discovered a concept new to me that it doesn't matter what the hell you present to a viewer, as long as there are valid reasons behind it, it could be the simplest thing, with no effort gone into it at all and still be seen as a beautiful and complex piece of art.
Effort is a beg thing I like to try to carry out in work, and it discourages me when people get away with successfully putting no effort into a project. I guess is what I am trying to say. This was my attempt at it, and it failed, so now I know.
