>>7967762I think its pretty important that each individual distinguish their critiques as objective or subjective. For example, if I go to a movie and I come out just saying it was shitty than that is an objectively bad form of criticism even if I am right by some objective metric, because I have not pointed to that metric to ground what I am saying in something besides my own feelings. Thats not to say feelings arent a valid metric by which to grade things, just that they should be clearly distinguished from the objective, as while an artist can almost always improve given some kind of objective criticism, an artist can never please the subjective feelings of everyone. So if we are to pay any head to the improvement of art over time we must ground ourselves in some kind of objective metric. Whether or not thats an important goal could be debated, but in my experience both I and others I know have had our art improve in a way that pleases us based on objective/constructive criticism, and likewise suffered the slings and arrows of subjective feelings of anger or disgust at what we have created being haphazardly thrown like so much monkey shit at the zoo. I realise I can come off like a pretentious autist saying these kinds of things, and saying them the way that I do. I simply dont care to change the way I think and communicate based on something that to me has as much value in its distinction as a shade of color or a pattern of wallpaper.
