/lit/ - Literature

>>5886503
>Painting is not about skill, and it is not about 'originality'.
>Sculpting is not about skill, and it is not about 'originality'.

See where we are at odds...this is fine, if the critic does not have a field to make money from, he will invent it.

> but it is not the be all, end all, definition attribute.

True, but it is the ONE thing a draftsman can assess the skill of another draftsman with.
It is the only true criticism in art, since it goes beyond subjectivity...it goes on experience and the experience of all those that came before them.
Being a masterly painter is being in competition with the entire canon of art history.
It's not unlike how only a piano virtuoso can truly judge another.

Here, a superior piece on the same model and theme.