Lois’s answer to “I just saw your post about your daughter's artist-in-residency. That's wonderful. As the father of …” > Likes and Comments
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I got very confused for a minute when this popped up in my update feed.
As the child of an artistic mother who fostered artistry in all her children I would echo the APPROPRIATE applause but include sincere interest, and also appropriate constructive criticism. The biggest gift my mother gave me was not being afraid of, offended by, or defensive about a critique. Even if I ultimately disagree with someone else's assessment, there is almost always something I can learn from it.
In Lois's case the argument about "doing something" obviously has had a successful closure - Lois being a much loved artist. For most of us other non-artistic readers, the argument would still be open if we are just lazy bastards - if we still lived with our parents. And no talk about creative differences and personal notions of art would have changed that. * sigh * Thus time makes monsters of us all.
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Jan 17, 2020 08:00PM
I got very confused for a minute when this popped up in my update feed.
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As the child of an artistic mother who fostered artistry in all her children I would echo the APPROPRIATE applause but include sincere interest, and also appropriate constructive criticism. The biggest gift my mother gave me was not being afraid of, offended by, or defensive about a critique. Even if I ultimately disagree with someone else's assessment, there is almost always something I can learn from it.
In Lois's case the argument about "doing something" obviously has had a successful closure - Lois being a much loved artist. For most of us other non-artistic readers, the argument would still be open if we are just lazy bastards - if we still lived with our parents. And no talk about creative differences and personal notions of art would have changed that. * sigh * Thus time makes monsters of us all.
