Crit #2

Well, more like crit #1 since I was actually in my correct group this week which is a first.

I felt that it went well, and I got a lot of good feedback. Sometimes working on a painting or a video for so long will make you hate it or at least start to wonder why you thought it was such a good idea in the first place but having people tell me that a certain shot in the video I showed was interesting or that some parts were well done and felt natural, it makes it worth it.

Thinking about critiques in general I'm starting to wonder what purpose they serve aside from maybe boosting your ego or giving you a new perspective. But, really, those things could be accomplished by asking a friend what they think about your work and would probably not take two hours. Yes, you're correct, this is when I start complaining, but I'm not the only one; in my five years of college level art classes I have yet to meet a single student that hasn't complained about a long, unnecessary, boring crit, and hardly anyone actually takes any of the advice they receive. The things said in my crit were appreciated but not exactly going to plot a new course for me in terms of where this thesis will lead. The bottom line is that we art students put far less thought into our work than you think and talking about it for more than a minute is really testing nothing but our ability to call upon our art history knowledge to make it seem like we are using any of the things you people teach us and also calming a sudden and direct urge to leap out of a third story window whenever someone brings up "symbolism."

Critiques in general serve a purpose but should be, in my opinion, optional. Unless we are going to drop the act and stop pretending that these things are only instated to make sure we are actually doing work and that the work we ARE doing is not total bullshit then all we accomplish is making a bunch of kids more exhausted than they already are.

But other than that I think it went okay :)