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By Pete Myers

Hereford Homestead© 2003, Peter H. Myers
Å“The Big House, to which I refer, isliving the dream life, in the big house, up on top of the hill ‚ a metaphor for what we often visualize as theAmerican Dream ‚ not the slang term for‚ prison.
The subject of this article is thecriticismof art — and my feeling that many criticsdelightin moving an artistfrom the big house, to the outhouseby means of their irrelevant comments.
Today, everyone with an email account and a keyboard has the power to become a critic of someone else’s artwork. While the Internet has brought the world together in many ways, it has also produced social phenomena of bullying and irrational actions from anonymous critics.
The Internet has affected artists’ work in a disproportional way, as the medium is considerably visual in content. We can now distribute visual works of art with ease and at low cost. While this development has accelerated interaction in the arts and a sharing of o...

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