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RE: Veneration Smothers Growth in an Artist Like Thirst and Grey Skies Wither the Fresh Budding Shoot.
Ty, sadly it will do little to improve the quality of Steemit poetry because without proper critique, the people who need to take note: either won't read it, or won't recognise that I was talking about them!
At least I got it off my chest ;)
I try to remember that the ancient cultures rarely had a word for "art." Art is life to me, and anything we create is another piece of art. I also try to remember that it was made because the person wanted to and enjoyed the process if not the end product. There is no such thing as bad art, except art that has not been attempted. Just my personal opinion of course. :D
Toddlers enjoy the process of picking their nose but if they wipe it on your favourite tee you aren't going to call it art, you're going to wash it.
Surely there has to be some point where you stop praising and you say, "hmm nice attempt but I think you could do better? Otherwise why is there even such thing as an art class or a dance class? If there's no bad then there's no good, so how do you decide what to vote for?
Of course people should feel free to create whatever they like and if they don't want criticism because they aren't interested in growth, then they should save their creations for close family and friends and people who have no opinion-like the ancients did.
Steemit artists are anti-criticism because pocket trumps development. There are few here would cut off their own ear.
I don't wear t-shirts, I wear a robe that I wash only when it gets ridiculously dirty - I would laugh and wipe off the booger.
Good and bad are polarities of the same idea, such as hot and cold are polarities of temperature. Both are completely subjective. How can I tell you that what you think is good, is actually bad? I can absolutely give my opinion on how I feel about it, and what I enjoyed and what I feel could have been done better. I cannot convince you that you are wrong and that I am right, both these are again subjective polarities of the good-bad dichotomy.
I praise every attempt, but that does not mean that I do not express my opinion for growth as well. I pride myself on being able to receive criticism and grow from it, so I do the same but do my best to make it constructive. If an individual cannot take my words, I shrug them off and keep moving forward.
I have absolutely seen what I would consider not great art get high payouts, but I cannot say anything other than its not of my liking because obviously there are others who would disagree with me and to argue is futile.
I do my art forms for the appreciation, not for the payment - the payment is wonderful and would be great if I could sustain off of such, but interaction is enough for me to know that my art was well received or what I am able to do to refine my skills.
I think that we are more or less on the same page, my robe wearing friend, except that I think that there is objectivity in human constructs, i.e thees iz badd spelink.
My observation is that there is a distinct lack of constructive criticism for Steemit art, particularly for high paying posts, because such criticism is dismissed as "sour grapes", no matter how positive it is and this attitude leads to a sycophantic environment that is stagnating for art.
Have you ever tried leaving constructive criticism on a high paying post? I actually did the first week that I was here: simply pointing out that the sonnet didn't quite fit the rules of a sonnet. I would be pleasantly surprised if any of my poetry ever received an up vote from that dolphin writer, but I won't hold my breath.
I actually believe that you would be different and welcome criticism if you were a dolphin writer, but you would be one of the few.