Portrait Artist of the Year

[lunatica]

3. I like looking at the art

but unfortunately the entire premise of making it all a competition of some sort with the inevitable “winner” at the end is something I abhor. Imposing false rules like saying the artist has 15 minutes to finish a portrait, is, to me, anathema to art. When you’re in your Right brain 15 minutes is a nanosecond of subjective time.

The art itself is great, but judging it on FALSE merits of any kind is a turn off to me. I won’t even vote on DU’s theme based photography competition, though I love looking at the pictures and I kick and recommend the threads. But would those photographers be comfortable if they had an audience of non photographers watching them work in the field with a team of judges looking over their shoulders commenting with ‘clever’ quips?

But that’s just me. I personally would never subject myself or anyone else to that kind of inspiration killing situation.