/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6535289
Putting a pet in a painting is like emotional manipulation

>>4490980

>>3874979
>>3875343
If programming is so artsy why are there so many programmers who come to this board, many of them wanting to jump ship? You don’t see singers, writers, or any other creative group doing that, because they can usually express themselves through those mediums well enough. The “creativity” of the top facebook coders is very different from the creative imagination of actual artists. No one is going to look at Joe’s codes at myspace in the same way as the work of Sargent or Mozart, however innovative it might be. One sort of creativity is only beautiful in a mathematical sense, while the other expresses a large gamut of human experience - you could imagine a song/poem/story/etc like pic related but you’d have be a mega autist to find something analogous in the world of programming