Hi, I have been a avid veiwer of this show and also landscape artist of the year, but I became increasing.dissillusioned with where your show was heading, I always under the impression that a standard had to be reached especially where being in the position of calling oneself a ARTIST, a bit like a driving test where the majority of people do not drive in the way required to pass the test but they have the skills in which they do so just so everyone knows they are able to perform at a standard required.
So we know they are able to draw or paint at a certain skill level to warrant the title of ARTIST but prefer to express their talent in a more none conventional way, absolutely no problems with that at all, but anyone who is only capable of creating random patterns or otherwise or if they can only paint or sketch stick figures at a preschool level should not have the title of ARTIST, now I know there's all kinds of art and has been for a very long time, that's fine but this should not be in a competition to become portrait ARTIST of the year and should be in a different categorie such as abstract or modern artist of the year l. To actually have a painting displayed in the national portrait gallery should in my opinion be capable of the highest standard possible to have that honour and not someone who is ONLY capable at best work at best at the skill level of maybe a 5 - 10 year old, they should never be in a competition for portrait ARTIST of the year. No problem whatsoever in them competing in any other competitors at all, Art should be expressed in lot's of different ways but definitely not in the same skills category such as Portrait Artist of the year, this implies being able to produce work at a very high standard and definitely not someone one who has time to belt out 4 or 5 works in one heat, someone who actually only spends 15 or 20 minutes on their actual Submission this is not only very wrong but extremely disrespectful to you as judges and especially the other competitors.my apologies for going on a bit but as someone who has tried to produce something of a certain standard and is never really happy with most of what I produce, it's extremely frustrating, I could without doubt paint at the level of a six year old or throw paint at a canvas in the hope of creating at best a nice pattern but this would be to easy and anyone who pic's up a crayon could call themselves ARTIST, please please for a competition such as yours keep it to a certain standard then I would certainly start watching again and a high enough standard to call themselves ARTIST, they have been some extremely talented people on the show that don't even get considered, judge them not on how they may look in a perfectly lit gallery under some vague description that tries to explain why it's with next to no talent, but on skill capability and effort.
So we know they are able to draw or paint at a certain skill level to warrant the title of ARTIST but prefer to express their talent in a more none conventional way, absolutely no problems with that at all, but anyone who is only capable of creating random patterns or otherwise or if they can only paint or sketch stick figures at a preschool level should not have the title of ARTIST, now I know there's all kinds of art and has been for a very long time, that's fine but this should not be in a competition to become portrait ARTIST of the year and should be in a different categorie such as abstract or modern artist of the year l. To actually have a painting displayed in the national portrait gallery should in my opinion be capable of the highest standard possible to have that honour and not someone who is ONLY capable at best work at best at the skill level of maybe a 5 - 10 year old, they should never be in a competition for portrait ARTIST of the year. No problem whatsoever in them competing in any other competitors at all, Art should be expressed in lot's of different ways but definitely not in the same skills category such as Portrait Artist of the year, this implies being able to produce work at a very high standard and definitely not someone one who has time to belt out 4 or 5 works in one heat, someone who actually only spends 15 or 20 minutes on their actual Submission this is not only very wrong but extremely disrespectful to you as judges and especially the other competitors.my apologies for going on a bit but as someone who has tried to produce something of a certain standard and is never really happy with most of what I produce, it's extremely frustrating, I could without doubt paint at the level of a six year old or throw paint at a canvas in the hope of creating at best a nice pattern but this would be to easy and anyone who pic's up a crayon could call themselves ARTIST, please please for a competition such as yours keep it to a certain standard then I would certainly start watching again and a high enough standard to call themselves ARTIST, they have been some extremely talented people on the show that don't even get considered, judge them not on how they may look in a perfectly lit gallery under some vague description that tries to explain why it's with next to no talent, but on skill capability and effort.
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