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- He found that getting critique from within your art school can have a negative effect sometimes
- A lot of internal competition that clouds people's judgement.
- A lot of pressure to do good work by a set of known standards, and there is less room to experiment.
- Process is non-linear: involves many drafts and versions
- Sometimes wished he had shown more intermediate stages in case something was lost along the way
- Really enjoyed contextual feedback (i.e. "oh this is a lot like <some other film maker>")
- Especially helpful when such comparisons inspired collaboration.
- Would have liked a forum in which people could post videos of related work.The
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- Most feedback comes from gallery critiques or mentor meetings
- Galleries are short and often more social
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- The artistic process is very personal and some artists are hesitant to over-share- The artist wants to gauge the emotional response, but it's hard to measure
- Varieties of sources are useful, but you your review audiences to be organized meaningfully (i.e. professor's do not see your friends reviews, etc.)
- The process involves many drafts and versions, and you sometimes want to show all of the stages in case you lost something along the way
- Feedback is directed at many different categories: Conceptual (What is the intention?), Contextual (How does this fit in with what we have seen before?), Technical (The actual skill).
- The artist often wants to know which work relates to yours or what your work brings to your audience's mind in a semantic sense
- Sometimes the artist wants their work to reflect a sense of collaboration of viewer input
- Hard to direct feedback to specific visual aspects
- Sometimes the work is more phenomenological, so visual feedback can be difficultThe Painter
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