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Question about the guy at the Brooklyn art walk who said my digital pieces looked 'too made on a computer'
Last Saturday at the Bushwick art walk, a guy looked at my tablet prints for 10 seconds and said they felt 'too clean to be real art.' It bugged me because I spent 40 hours on those pieces while he praised a friend's messy oil painting that took 2 hours. Why do people treat smooth digital work like it's less valid than something with visible brush strokes?
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jamiesingh25d ago
Wait, he looked at your work for 10 seconds and decided it was "too clean to be real art"? That is wild to me. I am not even a digital artist and I know those tablet prints take serious skill. People see a smooth line or a perfect gradient and their brain just goes "well a machine did that" even though no machine spent 40 hours and a hundred tiny decisions on it. Meanwhile a messy painting gets a pass because the mess looks like effort, even if the whole thing took 2 hours. It is weird how "visible struggle" became the thing people grade art on. Smooth does not mean easy, it just means you hid the hard parts.
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