3 Good Things (again)

1. I had ChatGPT analyze some of my art (I know I’m feeding the system but whatever) and it said for one of them it was “successfully disturbing” which I find really funny

Good to give AI a puzzlement - instead of the other way around.

A curious "how to feedback negative emotional news, with positivity".

What did you imagine the feedback might have been if one of us were to critique the same artwork?

DormouseAtRest_25 said:

What did you imagine the feedback might have been if one of us were to critique the same artwork?

I don’t know, I think some people might like it and some might not? But regardless of if the critique was positive or negative I would still freak out about showing it and would think the positive feedback was just politeness. 

FrozenHeart said:

art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly

Thank you so much, it was great to read your outlook.

Your stamina outshines my own - if I am painting a picture my maximum attention span is 2 hours (and that is including a good beverage and move around break!).

Some art galleries / museums have their own stock of folding stools - which you can ask to borrow during a visit.

I have sometimes made use of that facility - as it can give me the option to choose somewhere a bit out of the main hubbub / an area less harshly lit etc. to sit a while and concentrate on a work which I have come to view (with a little less feeling of obligation to move with the general throng of visitor humanity and those works on display I would prefer to dodge).  

The bonus of a stool, compared to the fixed benches galleries tend to install ...you can be as "anti-social" as you desire ...with less of the stranger-visitor-neighbour ambience (encroaching on your personal space!).

Wow you interpret art wayyy differently than I do.. I wish I understood meanings behind them.

I actually don’t like art too much. I only have the desire to do it maybe once a month and I never can spend more than 3 hours on it (usually it’s 20min to an hour). I don’t try to do meaning ones very often - I prefer more literal things and making it look “good” to look at. I might have a fictional story tied to it but it’s nothing like “this painting shows the struggles of humanity with xyz”

Also art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly. So much of the art tends to be abstract in some way (even if it’s not technically), it makes me feel like I can’t breathe then I get frustrated when people are taking too long to get through the exhibit. The last time I went to one I accidentally broke my fidget from stimming too hard and that triggered a meltdown  

So basically if someone wanted to interpret it a certain way then I don’t mind, I’m more concerned about if it looks okay. Things can look good even if the rules are broken, so I don’t mean perfection of a specific style, but I don’t want someone to have to look away because somthing about it is an insult to their eyes

(Without showing it) - would you hope people would interpret your artwork in the same way as you and understand what it intends to represent?  Or would you believe it to be an expression more personal to you (so you were the most likely person to understand the subject and representation)? Perhaps you would one day hope to share it with people but choose not to be available to receive feedback.

Sometimes, when I am looking around an art gallery; I can feel different things about the intention of the various works displayed:

- this one is about celebrating the art / beauty / passion / emotions of the subject 

- those ones are about documentation of something shocking / historical / allegorical

- wow, these ones are a bit edgy / out there / psychedelic / pushing boundaries 

- sparkly thing here is about fantasy / dreams / wonder

- harsh and mechanistic over here is true science fiction 

- calm and cultured over there is bucolic / pastoral / landscape and architectural 

- no missing the vibrancy of this portraiture 

- that one is about advocacy / a campaign / propaganda 

- here is one more about contact / communication / connection / relationship 

- this one is pure validation / about having a voice, values and someone being seen

...and so forth.

I don't initially think of the artworks in terms of good / bad, or positive / negative - usually I am absorbed with trying to understand why the piece had been composed and the narrative intended to be conveyed (what, if anything, did the artist want me to know?).

Much, much later; comes the question of: do I like it enough to envisage something like that on display in my home, or to inform or influence my own creativity?

(Without showing it) - would you hope people would interpret your artwork in the same way as you and understand what it intends to represent?  Or would you believe it to be an expression more personal to you (so you were the most likely person to understand the subject and representation)? Perhaps you would one day hope to share it with people but choose not to be available to receive feedback.

Sometimes, when I am looking around an art gallery; I can feel different things about the intention of the various works displayed:

- this one is about celebrating the art / beauty / passion / emotions of the subject 

- those ones are about documentation of something shocking / historical / allegorical

- wow, these ones are a bit edgy / out there / psychedelic / pushing boundaries 

- sparkly thing here is about fantasy / dreams / wonder

- harsh and mechanistic over here is true science fiction 

- calm and cultured over there is bucolic / pastoral / landscape and architectural 

- no missing the vibrancy of this portraiture 

- that one is about advocacy / a campaign / propaganda 

- here is one more about contact / communication / connection / relationship 

- this one is pure validation / about having a voice, values and someone being seen

...and so forth.

I don't initially think of the artworks in terms of good / bad, or positive / negative - usually I am absorbed with trying to understand why the piece had been composed and the narrative intended to be conveyed (what, if anything, did the artist want me to know?).

Much, much later; comes the question of: do I like it enough to envisage something like that on display in my home, or to inform or influence my own creativity?

FrozenHeart said:

art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly

Thank you so much, it was great to read your outlook.

Your stamina outshines my own - if I am painting a picture my maximum attention span is 2 hours (and that is including a good beverage and move around break!).

Some art galleries / museums have their own stock of folding stools - which you can ask to borrow during a visit.

I have sometimes made use of that facility - as it can give me the option to choose somewhere a bit out of the main hubbub / an area less harshly lit etc. to sit a while and concentrate on a work which I have come to view (with a little less feeling of obligation to move with the general throng of visitor humanity and those works on display I would prefer to dodge).  

The bonus of a stool, compared to the fixed benches galleries tend to install ...you can be as "anti-social" as you desire ...with less of the stranger-visitor-neighbour ambience (encroaching on your personal space!).

Wow you interpret art wayyy differently than I do.. I wish I understood meanings behind them.

I actually don’t like art too much. I only have the desire to do it maybe once a month and I never can spend more than 3 hours on it (usually it’s 20min to an hour). I don’t try to do meaning ones very often - I prefer more literal things and making it look “good” to look at. I might have a fictional story tied to it but it’s nothing like “this painting shows the struggles of humanity with xyz”

Also art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly. So much of the art tends to be abstract in some way (even if it’s not technically), it makes me feel like I can’t breathe then I get frustrated when people are taking too long to get through the exhibit. The last time I went to one I accidentally broke my fidget from stimming too hard and that triggered a meltdown  

So basically if someone wanted to interpret it a certain way then I don’t mind, I’m more concerned about if it looks okay. Things can look good even if the rules are broken, so I don’t mean perfection of a specific style, but I don’t want someone to have to look away because somthing about it is an insult to their eyes