--- COLIN CLARK <colin.clark1@btinternet.com> escribió:
A bad translation is very much one thing, a bad piece of art entirely something else. The values that are used to judge each one are totally different. With art, values like integrity are crucial. Not so in translation.
This was just to exemplify how we tend to look at artists as if they were extraterrestrial entities. They are obviously made of a different pastry in most cases, but there's a big difference between "admiration" and "blind idolatry". You can consider this soccer player pure crap and no one will feel outraged, but never touch an artists' aura or you're a dead man. You not only need talent to paint or write music, but also for daily life things that remain underrated. Also, we (fans, critics, etc) seem to have tacitly set categories that establish which musicans and records are criticizable and which are not. Would you admit that you don't like "Kind of Blue" in public? We tend to forget that artists' also want to make a living, and they've chosen a way that can be unsuccessful or totally satisfying. Making a living includes earning some money. It irritates me like hell when some artists make me want to believe that they're in this just for the sake of art and that they hate stupid journalists that know nothing. Ask some of those "commited artists" to play for free at a benefit and you'll hear the most incredible excuses. If you add the fact that some of them firmly state that they don't care about their audience at all, my question is: Why don't they just stay at home and enjoy their art in their purest form? The answer is obvious. They want to make a living (which is something entirely respectable) and somehow, many of them want to have their work exposed Within this group, some will accept negative responses and some others will not, and that will probably turn you into an ignorant. This is what Derek Bailey said to Nick Cain about the subject: "Well, I always assume that the good reviews are written by intelligent, perceptive, keen-eared, decent likeable fellows who are a credit to their profession, and the bad reviews are written by tone-deaf, ignorant, corrupt, know-nothing motherfuckers who should stick to slicing salami, or whatever they do for a living." Despite the likely ironic tone of Bailey's reply, there's something inherently true about it, I'm completely sure.
Simply because someone puts out a piece of work that you happen not to like does not a 'bad' piece of art make. That's about taste.
That's very obvious and I insist, nobody said that.
It's about investing your time, effort, energy, money, and love into it, making untold sacrifices, and being prepared for a cadre of critics to come along and tell you how 'bad' they think your work is. Then continuing to do it all again.
Many people do that every single day of their lives with jobs that don't mean a thing to them and nobody kneels down in front of them. They just gotta eat. If we take that attitude maybe we'll have to revise our whole perception of things. Best, Efrén del Valle ______________________________________________ Yahoo! lanza su nueva tecnologÃa de búsquedas ¿te atreves a comparar? http://www.viralbusquedas.yahoo.es