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Re:After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil... by veltas on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:56AM (#32531021)
Respectfully, and not to start an argument, but I think you don't need to defend the artist or say people shouldn't comment if they want to criticise. I don't think artists who do this stuff care if people think it's pointless or bad. That other people can enjoy it at all is something. Artists who created things this big aren't overly sensitive people, if they were they would have stopped decades back, after the first thousand people said it was an expensive waste of time. So I think people should be honest and say if they think it's crap. And the artist may get a kick out of it, or not care. Likewise don't say nice things about it if you think it's crap, just be honest.
Re:After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil... by sudden_dystopia on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:31AM (#32531556)
Thank you for putting this to words. It is not art unless it is open for criticism. That’s kind of the whole point. An artist is vulnerable->releases new work into the world->it passes through the filter of criticism->work is determine to be beautiful art or crap. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but at scale, beauty is in the eyes of the masses.