I have fellow artist who exhibit and enter their works quite frequently. Rightfully so, they should because they are very good artist and most of them have found their style, niche in Hampton Roads art community. As exhibiting applies to me, i find another path. A path that states i won't enter shows. Recently i watched one of my favorite movies Redbelt again. I watch it sometimes when emotionally i feel like i'm not in control of certain situations in life. The main character states calmly that he doesn't enter competitions because it's draining. It takes a lot out of artist, athlete to compete against others in the hopes of winning a prize. I find myself preparing myself with ideas of i would walk away with this award or prize money and ultimately getting a nice rejection letter in exchange. The time and energy that's put towards creating something free spirited is done so with the pressure of labor. I only find competition within myself. I find myself trying to draw a better drawing than the one i did previously. I understand fully that my works may never land myself on a grand scale of who's who in the art world but that's okay with me.
Overall i agree with dj Rob Swift it is draining, frustrating and upsetting to compete.
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Wow! That is about the most irrational and preposterous total nonsense opinion and ideology about someone fear of competition I have ever read. The character states “calmly” that he doesn’t enter competitions because “it’s draining”??? Wrong. Entering competitions is Not “draining”. It’s only “draining” to that character and to you because neither of you are mentally strong enough to handle it. That is the issue, not the competition, itself. Competitions do NOT “take a lot of artist, athlete to compete against others in hopes of winning a prize.”. Wrong. Entering in a competition is Not just about “winning a prize”. It’s about training one’s mind and emotions to be stable, because when you go out in the real world and do business, even small business, which is what real true artists do, competition is inevitable and irrefutable and automatically comes with doing business and with being an artist, naturally. There is no business without competition, obviously, and there is no being an artist without competition, and if there is no business, you don’t make a living. Instead, you get a measly job working for someone else and just getting by, becoming a doodler who just does art for pass time, a horrible miserable life that is far more draining, upsetting, and takes far more out of you than any competition can ever do, and all just because you don’t want to do the necessary hard labor that it takes to be successful and be a real true artists and business person. Once again, there is no being an artist without competition. You’re just a doodler. No real true artist creates work just for themselves. A real true artist exhibits, does business, and competes, if not in an actual competition then out in the out in the real world in the business industry against other artists. It just comes automatic, because, once again, it’s business. Competition is the essence of hard work, focus, knowing what you want, determination, and perseverance, for without it, there is no purpose to doing business and not much purpose to being an artist. If you are that bad you cannot handle a simple and responsible thing like preparing yourself with ideas and hard work that may lead you to walk away with a prize or money but instead may end up ultimately getting a “nice” rejection letter “in exchange”, then that is just horrendously pathetic. That is being downright lazy, irresponsible, and a bad sport, period.
“Nice” rejection letter??? “Nice”??? Wow! You are also very VERY bad at sarcasm, because that attempt just stinks. “In exchange”??? In exchange for what??? Are you kidding or completely out of your mind??? You don’t get to have a prize award as an “exchange” just because you came up with ideas and did hard work. Nobody owes you a damn thing just because you did hard work and came up with ideas. That is such bull crap. Just because you “prepare yourself” with ideas and do hard work to compete does not automatically give you the right nor does it entitle you to get a prize or money “in exchange” EVER. You do NOT deserve to get any winning prize just because you came up with ideas and did hard work, and you don’t get to make demands nor have expectations just because you did “so much hard work”. Wah wah! Boo hoo! Newsflash, you’re not the only one who comes up with ideas and does hard work. Everybody else ALSO comes up with ideas and does hard work, but they’re NOT whining, complaining, bitching, and moaning about not winning a prize how much hard work, energy, and ideas they’ve exerted like YOU are. That’s the difference. You don’t like entering in competitions, because you are a bad sport and a terrible competitor, and that is the bottom line. You also have an awfully terrible spirit regarding art, and that all stems from your despicable attitude towards hard work and competition. If you’re under the pressure of so much “hard labor” and feel so “drained” in a competition and then received no prize in the end, then you take it, you put up with it, and you take it like a man, and you deal with it. You don’t whine and moan like a child, because doing hard work that doesn’t pay off and then getting back up to move on and try again is the essence of business success and the value of hard work, win or lose, the way many have done, failed, then tried again, and they didn’t whine like a child then ultimately gave up like a coward. giving up the journey and the fight just because it’s “too much hard labor” has no value, no recognition, and no respect, because that is being a downright coward, a failure, and a loser, and, even worse, by choice. Exercising hard work that doesn’t pay off in the end then getting back up to move on and try again is also the essence of being a true quality human being. It is the essence of being a true business person, a good competitor, and a real true artist out in the real world, and only they will eventually get their pay-off, because they have the will, the patience, the determination, the perseverance, and they don’t whine and moan that they didn’t get their reward nor do they whine and moan about all the “pressures of hard labor” or how “draining”, “frustrating”, and “upsetting” it all seems to be.
Otherwise, you cop out some grumpy pessimistic self-righteous pompous attitude that you should automatically earn a pay off just because you did hard work, and it shall always result in absolute failure and make you a total loser, for that despicable attitude of yours never amounts to becoming a real true artist, just a pathetic ideologically deranged grumpy pessimistic idiot disliked by everyone who turns out to be a hobby doodler, instead of an artist, just because he was not man enough to get off his lazy ass and do the hard work necessary to compete in the real world without whining, complaining, nor expecting and demanding some instant pay-off for it. It is this very pompous lousy bad sport pessimistic idiotically self-righteous demanding attitude that is the VERY reason why you never won and will never win anything in any competition. “The time and energy spent on creating something “free spirited” is done so with the pressure of hard labor”??? And you have a problem with that??? First of all, if you create an artwork that is in the likes of your so-called “free spirited”-type, it is very likely, by far, to be atrociously lousy bad art, and nobody in the right mind is going to like it, let alone pay you money for it, bottom line, so you can throw that whole “free-spirited” artsy fartsy concept right out the window, because it sucks, it’s tasteless, nobody likes it, and it makes no money, and anything you put a lot effort in creating a great piece or work of art is ALWAYS going to be done with “the pressure of hard labor”, because without the pressure of hard labor, there is nothing valuable nor of quality to show, and there is hardly any talent to be recognized for. Do NOT expect to get rewarded just because you did such “hard labor”. That is NOT the way it works, EVER. You do NOT get to have your cake and eat it, too. You want to earn a winning prize??? You have to EARN it! Doing the hard labor work and coming up with ideas is NOT enough. That is just the basics. That is what automatically comes with the program, so DO NOT ever expect that you, oddly somehow, should be rewarded just because you did some measly hard labor. Your obligation is to create good and unique new ideas that is compelling, grabs the audience, and is quality art, and upon then, only MAYBE you get a reward, because you should already know that nothing is guaranteed, especially in business, as there are many other artists and creators who are also great and who may supersede you even if you created something extraordinary. That is knowledge rule number one: Nothing is guaranteed to reward you just because you conducted such “draining”, “frustrating”, and “upsetting” hard labor. However, without trying, you won’t even get an opportunity, at all, and THAT right there, doing nothing without even trying, is far more “draining”, “frustrating”, and “upsetting” in the long run than doing the hard work and getting nor reward, by a milestone. Anyone with half their sanity knows that.
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