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General Discussion / What about attitude?
« on: May 09, 2014, 09:05:51 pm »
Is any kind of attitude justified when criticizing?
Pixelation has always been a place of raw criticism, usually without any sugarcoating. But in certain recent threads there has been a lot of friction and some try to explain it by emotions getting in the way of objective discussion, but are we really that objective?
When you criticize it's easy to exaggerate to get a point across and as an artist there has always been things that irk me with certain aesthetics, making certain issues more annoying than others. Yet a lot of people here seem to think they are completely devoid of emotion and any emotions are brought in by the person reading the criticism.
I think one of the dark sides of this forum is elitism, I have no problem imagining that a lot of criticism fill a need of the person criticizing, which is too be right and show others how right you are. Mostly because I've felt those tendencies myself, but that also means I'm looking at this through tinted glasses, so I can only see this from my own perspective.
But when I try to read between the lines in some criticism it does seem a bit hostile.
I think a lot of people are also intimidated by this kind of approach because it seems defensive, you're avoiding any emotional investment and expressions, so you don't have anything to lose on that front, yet the person posting their art usually feel extremely exposed and have put a lot of emotions into their work.
Pixelation has always been a place of raw criticism, usually without any sugarcoating. But in certain recent threads there has been a lot of friction and some try to explain it by emotions getting in the way of objective discussion, but are we really that objective?
When you criticize it's easy to exaggerate to get a point across and as an artist there has always been things that irk me with certain aesthetics, making certain issues more annoying than others. Yet a lot of people here seem to think they are completely devoid of emotion and any emotions are brought in by the person reading the criticism.
I think one of the dark sides of this forum is elitism, I have no problem imagining that a lot of criticism fill a need of the person criticizing, which is too be right and show others how right you are. Mostly because I've felt those tendencies myself, but that also means I'm looking at this through tinted glasses, so I can only see this from my own perspective.
But when I try to read between the lines in some criticism it does seem a bit hostile.
I think a lot of people are also intimidated by this kind of approach because it seems defensive, you're avoiding any emotional investment and expressions, so you don't have anything to lose on that front, yet the person posting their art usually feel extremely exposed and have put a lot of emotions into their work.