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Unconventional variation seemed to be the number one recurring theme this season for bridal-wear. Showing off their versatile chops, the industry's top designers veered from the usual wedding norm and instead delivered show-stopping designs, each different from the next. Whether you seek self-expression, sensuality or riveting beauty, there is a gorgeous gown to satisfy your viewing pleasure.
Wedding Dresses Allure Couture striking for its luxury and elegance at the same time, rich in splendor and elegant sophistication.
Spectacular styles, impeccable finishing lace, Swarovski crystals, beautiful embroidery, seductive neckline and bare shoulders and cascading white ruffles are fascinating sight.
How about a real treat for you ladies (sorry gents) this lazy Wednesday morning, today we bring you the new Monique LHuillier collection for 2014, the wedding dresses hot off the catwalk in New York. A major trendsetter for wedding dresses worldwide, Monique LHuillier is reknowned for her ultra-feminine styles, subtle and chic, these are dresses that complement the lady wearing them – the bride wears the dress, rather than the dress wearing the bride! For the 2014 season Monique LHuillier made a huge effort to cater to all kinds of bridal style, from city chic and short, to fairytale princess so there's something for every kind of lady…
Around this time last week, we were running back and forth throughout NYC…attending runway shows and appointments for the top bridal designers to see what dresses will be gracing your favorite bridal salons next season. Well, things are back in full swing here at Munaluchi and it's time to dish out the top trends we noticed during Spring 2014 bridal market. From long sleeves to peplum skirts to jacquard fabrics…here are the trends that stole our hearts, and the designers who showcased them best.
Short Dresses
Whether you want to be courthouse chic or turns heads a 2nd time at your reception, these dresses were short and sweet.
Long Sleeves
This trend was seen in just about every collection using lace and tulle, and is definitely here to stay.
Tea length dresses
So classic and demure.
Illusion necklines
Sexy backs
Hi-Low skirts
A mix between a full length skirt and tea length. I call these the peek-a-boo skirts…
Inspired by vintage style, a lot of brides-to-be want to follow the trend of wedding fashion. So choosing a precious antique gown is necessary for the most memorable moment. Since you have been dreaming of your wedding day for what feels like forever, you deserve to feel every bit as special as you can ever imagine. An antique frock is the old collectible item which is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, or other unique features. At this point, the idea behind a vintage wedding dress is that it's one of a kind – from every lace frill to each embroidered floret.
Antique dress
Including formal and informal dresses in styles that range from Victorian to Preppy, primarily from the 1940 – 1990's, you will feel free to choose a fabulous Antique dress or a gown that looks vintage. Several of timeless designs of wedding dresses are just as popular and pretty as the old days. Brides-to-be who are drawn to vintage have a spectacular sense of style that adores a look from the past and a unique personality that makes an outstanding statement on the wedding. For this most important event of your life, when only vintage will do, an antique dress is here just for you. It is very lucky to find a gorgeous authentic vintage gown that fits well because every authentic gown is unique and hard to alternate. Speak of vintage dress, there are some distinct such as diamond, lace and embroidery. These dresses are often made from excellent quality fabrics (raw silk and rayon) which are one of the reasons that they are being collected.
After finding the perfect vintage gown, brides are ready to choose appropriate accessories to match the era and style of the dress. Since the antique gown has more decoration details, the accessories should not be overstated anymore. Simple jewelry, like a pair of pear earrings, will add more feminine glamour to the bride. But if you choose a Deep V-neck or backless gown, a luxurious necklace will make the look perfect. Most of vintage dresses are half-sleeved or long-sleeved which save the trouble of wearing gloves.A vintage wedding dress captures the feeling of decades past and adds the glamorous touch to the bride. Get ready and make the timeless vintage look on the wedding.
The Wedding Dress Hunt Begins
The wedding dress hunt has begun. First stop London's Browns Bride where I was told I was the smallest bride she'd ever seen and that my fantasy designers Oscar de la Renta (below) and Valentino were "not for my size". Despite that rather abrupt start – which is exactly what you need if you're ever going to reach stage two – Sam really knew what she was talking about and hauled out some beautiful, spot-on gowns (as I was rather struck dumb) by Monique Lhuillier, Carolina Herrera and Peter Langner which fitted to perfection. Well, with five clamps at the back.
Nothing prepares you for the first time you see yourself in a wedding dress; afraid to breath, eyes innocently wide at the image. Adding a veil is almost too much visual significance to take – you're a bride! It's astonishing how quickly this feeling dissipates – after gown four you're a hardened, seen-it-all-before critic with a deadline to meet.
First tip; although I'm a big fan of slipping on something over budget to gauge the benchmark, always ask the price on seeing the gown. We're Brits, we don't like talking about money, but please don't do what I did and stand looking at the one (a full-skirted and heavily beaded Carolina Herrera) from all angles for 35 minutes before discovering it's £9,000. Ditto the Monique Lhuillier and also the Peter Langner (above) at £12,000. It's hard to recover from that rollercoaster.
Second tip; don't stand on the little stage to view the dress. Of course we all look miles better with acres more leg but it's an unrealistic vision.
On to the Vera Wang shop at the newly opened second Browns store on Brook Street (nothing gained from previous budget concerns). Katy is wonderful and gets me immediately. Just not sure if Vera does. Wang makes unquestionably gorgeous gowns with form-fitting corsets mixed with romantic, deconstructed skirts (below). They're surprisingly comfortable, you could waft and dance to your heart's content. I need to work out whether I want to waft freely or glide stiffly…
One gripe; why don't bridal shops have 360 degree mirrors? These are expensive boutiques and we're spending the most we've ever spent on a dress yet we're looking at our back view through a handheld mirror – the back being a marginally important angle…! You get a 360 degree mirror in BHS for goodness sake. Most odd.
I have two more days of dress shopping booked before I seem to have ticked the London box and consumed as many holiday days as I'm willing to spend. I'm finding plenty of beautiful gowns for three times budget. Panic!
From simple, barely-there necklines to ethereal confections lavished with lace, New York's Bridal Fashion Week Fall 2013 (October 12 – 15) offered a honey pot of inspiration for would-be brides. Here's a round-up of the best looks from Vera Wang and Marchesa.
An asymmetrical tulle garland adds interest to an ultra flattering taffeta ballgown.
Vera Wang Fall 2013
An asymmetrical tulle garland adds interest to an ultra flattering taffeta ballgown.
Vera Wang Fall 2013
Having most recently designed the wedding dress of Blake Lively, which remains shrouded in secrecy, Marchesa offered a spellbinding vision of layered silk and organza to suit the most fairytale of gown fantasies. Models accessorised with exquisite Miriam Haskell jewellery, in keeping with the romantic feel.
A romantic, voluminous gown, balanced with a modern, low cut bodice.
Marchesa Fall 2013
A romantic, voluminous gown, balanced with a modern, low cut bodice.
Marchesa Fall 2013
The illusion neckline, a key trend for this season, proves just as impactful on the back.
Elsewhere, Reem Acra pre-empted Great Gatsby remake hysteria with its effervescent flapper-inspired creations; New York favourite Amsale showed classic silhouettes, revitalised with unexpected twists; while Jenny Packham sprinkled Art Deco style embellishment on gowns that recalled the golden age of cinema.
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From dramatic ball gowns to airy, ethereal confections, New York Bridal Week spring / summer 2014 served up an endless parade of wedding dresses to inspire. Here's a round-up of the most note-worthy looks…
Monique Lhuiller spring / summer 2014
Ever the crowd-pleaser, Monique Lhuiller showed a broad spectrum of styles ranging from the clean and crisp to the beaded and lacy.
Sweetly simple 1960s inspired shift suits and cocoon styles were ripe for the registry office while frothy, silk organza dresses and lacy prom styles proved going short doesn't have to mean missing out on the fun.
Lhuiller also experimented with new veiling techniques, working lace overlays into removable cape styles or fashioning waterfall tulle bustles to create the illusion of a full length veil.
Elsewhere, soft, unstructured dresses with intricate beading harked back to the Art Deco era, while classic princess gowns were updated with sculpted bodices and stiff, asymmetrical peplums.
Vera Wang spring / summer 2014
The fairy godmother of bridal loves to court controversy, spurning traditional ivory for gothic black for Fall 2012, bold crimson for Spring 2013 and, this season, monochrome, with strict leather accents…
As ever, the epic, high drama ball gowns Vera Wang has made her name with were in heavy supply and featured characteristic modern flourishes – like this pretty tulle skirt paired with an edgier monochrome bustier.
Bodices were typically fashioned in black, some with strict asymmetrical straps. One particularly striking look, for which bold brides need only apply, featured a central skunk-like black panel through the bodice and the skirt.
Peel off the fetish leather gloves, however, and the rest of the collection was a little less "editorial". Highlights included a deep V-slashed bodice combined with a peplum waist, and fishtail gowns finished with larger-than-life lace motifs.
Temperley spring / summer 2014
Alice Temperley's vision for spring/summer 2014 proved a little more accessible.
Silk gowns cut on the bias came with negligee-esque lace panels and cap sleeves, and deep, cowl backs.
Invisible necklines – a flourishing bridal trend – were highlighted with delicate embellishment, silk organza flowers and subtle beading.
A tiered, frothy style was feminine and girlish – ribbon and sheer panelling working to complete an ethereal confection of organza, silk and lace – while its accompanying lace jacket was proof that the
Every girl hopes that shopping for a bridal gown will fulfil all her cinematic fantasies of champagne, weeping friends, and a genuflecting sales assistant as you emerge from the plush changing room breathing 'it's the one'.
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work like that for everybody. My experience was fast and furious: a fisticuffs sample sale in uptown Madrid, a sales assistant shouting at me in Spanish, a quick dart back into the changing room to sneak in one more dress to try, and then the quick decision that it fit nicely and was really rather beautiful. In the bag, and off to the cafe for a celebratory cortado with my mum and my sister.
However, if you are shopping in London for your wedding dress, there is one place that I urge you to try for that ultimate rose-tinted bridal experience: The Vintage Wedding Dress Company. With an elegantly white washed loft show room just off Tottenham Court Road, VWDC is a treasure trove of vintage wedding dresses carefully chosen by founder Charlie Brear and her team of experts. Gowns range from Victorian-era lace confections all the way up to Studio 54 slinky Seventies gowns via liquid silk bias cut gowns from the Thirties and flirty minis from the Sixties in between. If you haven't a notion what style of dress you want for your wedding, this is the best place to start.
You'll be welcomed by one of the company's extremely competent staff (a special mention here goes out to the amazing Jess, who looked after my sister for her wedding and is a wizard at telling what will suit your shape and style) and then you'll be led into an elegant changing room and given a vintage silk kimono to wear between trying on dresses – a lovely touch. The staff really know their stuff and know exactly what alterations will work with each gown you try on. Not only that but they'll style you up with exquisite antique hairpieces, fur stoles and decadent piano stoles so you can really get to know what works for you.
So popular has the vintage wedding look become that Brear launched a range of wedding dresses inspired by each decade, and these are just as spectacular as some of the originals.
It's by appointment only, so be sure to book well in advance.
Short wedding dresses have long been the perfect thing for a tropical or beach wedding. There are many good reasons to try a wedding dress with a short skirt that goes beyond mere fashion.For one thing, there is dance.
A radical dress you look beautiful when you swing a little distance from left to right, but short wedding dress you can really cut a rug at your reception.
At the other end of the spectrum coordination, remember that a wedding dress that tea-length or higher drastically reduces your chances of taking a header if you walk down the aisle.
Alberta Ferretti's Forever 2014 bridal collection is pure, romantic perfection. Modeled by Tali Lennox, the 12 gowns which are named after royal palaces and castles feature luxurious embroidered Swarovski beads and crystals detailing, with lace accents completing the charming bohemian look. We love them all!
We love these incredibly romantic gowns from Aire Barcelona 2014 bridal collection. The styles in this latest collection range from princess-like confections with ethereal layers of soft tulle and royal organza to Greek goddess worthy draped gowns in crinkle chiffon, featuring delicate lace and beaded accents. But if something with a touch glamour is what you seek, you'll love one of the stunning Gatsby style beaded sheaths.
Individuality is at the heart of the Tobi Hannah brand and nowhere is it more celebrated than in the latest collection, "The Wall". Inspired by Pink Floyd's album of the same title and in particular by the song "Another Brick in the Wall", Tobi Hannah's Spring 2014 bridal collection features delicately elegant yet fun and flirtatious short and tea length wedding dresses, executed with the brand's vintage signature using tulle, silk crepe and lace. Above and below, Wall strapless tea length dress with brocade sweetheart bodice, carter short lace wedding dress with sheer neckline, short sleeves and triangle godets on the skirt.
Gold wrap lace short dress with sheer bodice and scalloped hem.
Castle bateau neck silk crepe short wedding dress with asymmetric bias band on tulle skirt.
Wilma embellished halter neck silk crepe short dress with contrast tiered tulle skirt.
Full circle tulle skirt and detachable halter neck straps.
Finding bridesmaid dresses for your nearest and dearest girls can be hard work, so bearing in mind brides are opting less for formal bridesmaid dresses and tend to go for the more casual high street look its even trickier to find something to suit all shapes and sizes.
I absolutely love the modern vintage and rustic style of bridesmaid so here are a few of my favourites of this year paying homage to their designers.


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HACHIKO NOOOO Will and I cried a lot while watching this movie tonight… So many feels.
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The one movie that gave me so many feels I'd look away but refused to stop watching.

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You show that liberals are extremely partisan and will overlook and defend any negative thing liberals do. If a pro-family conservative is caught in extramarital situation, liberals are the first to cry "hypocrite." If Al Gore selling his network to Al Jezeera isn't hypocritical, then I don't know what is. But, instead of being honest about it, you defend him and deried those who would criticize him. You prove that liberals are partisan in every part of their lives, and any time they claim to be objective, it is just a ruse to gain some advantage for the liberal side.
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By the way, your statement about creating something from nothing. The source of Gore's creation was liberal thought, which in your words, equals nothing. This is something that I do agree with you, Mr/Mrs/Ms. Goshdarn Liberal.
The liberal media have spent 12 years feeling sorry for Al Gore. The Man Who Should Have Won in 2000 has had megatons of positive publicity dumped on him, hailing him as the "Goracle." They cheered as leftists honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize and gave an Oscar to his filmed eco-sermon, "An Inconvenient Truth."
So when Gore sold his left-wing cable channel Current TV to Al-Jazeera for $500 million, where were they? Despite the fact that conservatives thought the deal sounded like a ridiculous April Fools' joke, the networks had nearly nothing to say. ABC skipped it...


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(D. Pickerill/P. O'Donoughue)
This song is for listening to
On nights you're all alone
Blank face at the window pane
Or a silent telephone
And it's all about a boy you have known
With black hair or brown hair
And hands made of stone
He had eyes like the (deeps?) in the sky
Hair like the clouds you've seen floating by
And my sky was your cloud
You made the first smile I had ever worn
Do you wonder if he knows now
Of the pain behind your eyes
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Or the half … forgotten … sighs
Do you try hard to sleep
And feel old memories
Creeping to the dark folds of night
??? your glance and made me dance
The first dance I had ever seen
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Only 28 days for the bullet to Martin's head.
Only 28 days for 12-year-old slaves legs spread.
28 days for the Black mother's whose 16-year-old son is dead.
Only 28 days for Black boys claiming colors, blue or red.
Only 28 days to realize no need to send money overseas, Black girls and boys right here in America will not be fed.
Another 28 days that lead to another 365 with no words said.
Only 28 days for Rosa at the front of that bus.
These 28 days go for the other 337 that the world don't give a fuck about us.
Only 28 days, the Black community gets off its ass and makes a fuss.
28 Days for the Million Man March.
28 Days for Rodney King's stitches to the face.
Only 28 days before once again, they erase our race.
All 365 days, says the Golden Arch.
Because we're the first ones with diabetes, heart disease, HIV and STDs.
How can I help you? Welcome to Mickey D's.
Only 28 days for our grandfathers, stabbed in the heart and spit in the face.
28 Days for the White man who walks free and the Black man who gets 28 to life for the same case.
Only 28 days for our Great-Grandfathers who were not considered citizens but paid taxes, couldn't vote and were in war zones and murdered at army bases.
28 days means nothing because half of my generation does not know these names, dates, facts and places.
When our 28 days are over, there are those who are still and will forever remain racist.
Only 28 days for the blisters of Harriet Tubman's feet.
Only 28 days for the immortality of Willie Lynch's speech.
28 days for 'For Colored Only' water fountains, exits and seats.
Only 28 days for Blacks lynched for learning to read and capturing knowledge.
They only admit for 28 days that there are more of us in college than in bondage.
Beyond these 28 days, we were the first beings to walk this planet. Everything on this Earth comes from us. You have it.
Only 28 days for Malcolm X, Ossie Davis and Langston Hughes.
Only 28 days for Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday.
This lady sings the blues.
Only 28 days for Black crimes with no "useful" clues.
28 days for Willie Lynch's permanent bruise.
Only 28 days for Sojourner Truth, Angela Davis and Emmitt Till.
28 Days for Coretta's husband buried at 39.
28 days for twelve year olds carrying pistols and nines.
Only 28 days for over four thousand lynched and murdered slaves.
We are that 16 year old boy who is dead.
We are the descendants of that twelve year old slave girl, legs spread.
28 days to let these Black boys know they are claiming colors on a land they will never own.
By the end of these 28 days, they are already dead.
So for every 337 days we go with no words said, we will forever be 337+28 days the bullet in Martin's head.
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Trayvon Martin would've been 19 today… In 1964 Ella Baker said: "Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens." #Repost from @rahielt
It's amazing to me how many "ear to the ground" folks I know have spent so ugh time posting about Beyoncé but still aren't spreading awareness about #kendrickjohnson . This 17 year old #blackboy was killed on school grounds in #Valdosta Georgia and everyone from the school to the cops to the coroner to the funeral home to the media is complicit in the #coverup . #CNN has been the only news outlet that has followed the story and tried to get the family some answers. HELLO PEOPLE this #blackbody is symbolic of how we as #blackpeople are still seen. THEY FILLED HIS BODY WITH NEWSPAPER! Look at his face! They tried to say he only suffocated?! How when he looks like #emmettill ?! If you can post about how wonderful Beyoncé is or anything else THEN SURELY you can share this story and spread awareness. The coverup is only working because people aren't informed. The more people know, the more pressure can be put on the town. The US Attorney and FBI are involved but it's not enough. Where are his rallies? His songs? His poems? Why is his image not being shared across the country? Across the world? Where is the #outrage
Oh my God. Bless his soul
Black and unarmed.
Remember the names of unarmed Black men who were killed by police or vigilantes. This is only a short list, please reply with other names so we may remember these men.
The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Martin was a 17-year-old African American high school student. He was unarmed and headed home after buying skittles and sweet tea from a gas station close to his home. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old multi-racial Hispanic American was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place. Zimmerman, against the instructions of the Emergency dispatcher pursued Martin on foot calling him "the suspect." When the case garnered international attention sparking protests all over the world, the state of Florida filled charges against him 46 days after Martin's death. Zimmerman was tried for second-degree murder and manslaughterand found not guilty on Saturday, July 13, 2013.
The 18-year-old was shot and killed by two security guards — also African American — outside his Atlanta home on Saturday, March 24, 2012. His mother says that he was unarmed and trying to protect his sister from a crowd that was threatening her.
22-year-old Amadou Ahmed Diallo, a Guinnea-Bissau immigrant, was killed when four white New York police officers in plain clothes fired 41 shots at him, 19 of which hit his body. The officers said they thought Diallo was reaching for a gun when they shot him in the doorway of his apartment. Turns out it was his wallet. During the trial, the officers admitted that they never considered the situation (four strangers in an unmarked car with guns approaching a guy on his stoop at night) from Diallo's point of view. They were acquitted of all charges.
The 26-year-old father of two young girls was shot to death in 2000 during a confrontation with undercover police officers who asked him where they could purchase drugs. An officer claimed thatDorismond — who was unarmed — grabbed his gun and caused his own death. But the incident made many wonder whether the recent acquittal of the officers in the Amadou Diallo case sent a signal that the police had a license to kill without consequence
In 2003 Officer Bryan A. Conroy confronted and killed Zongo in New York City during a raid on a counterfeit-CD ring with which Zongo had no involvement. Relatives of the 43-year-old man from Burkina Faso settled a lawsuit against the city for $3 million. The judge in the trial of the officer who shot him (and was convicted of criminally negligent homicide but did not serve jail time) said he was "insufficiently trained, insufficiently supervised and insufficiently led."
Unarmed and with no criminal record, 19-year-old Stansbury was killed in 2004 in a Brooklyn, N.Y., stairwell. The officer who shot him said he was startled and fired by mistake. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called his death "a tragic incident that compels us to take an in-depth look at our tactics and training, both for new and veteran officers." A grand jury deemed it an accident.
Hours before his wedding, 23-year-oldSean Bell left the strip that hosted his bachelor party, jumped into a car with two friends, and was killed when police fire 50 shots into his vehicle. Police say they opened fire after Bell rammed his car into an unmarked police van filled with plainclothes officers. They say they followed Bell and his friends outside the club suspecting that one person in their group had a gun. Referring to Bell and his friends, Mayor Bloomberg told the Associated Press "there is no evidence that they did anything wrong." A judge acquitted the officers of all charges in 2008.
While surrendering on his knees in front of four Las Vegas police officers, Orlando Barlow was shot with an assault rifle by officer Brian Hartman 50 feet away. Hartman argued that he feared Barlow was feigning surrender and about to grab a gun. Barlow was unarmed. A jury ruled the shooting "excusable." Hartman later resigned from the force a month before a federal probe uncovered that he and other officers printed T-Shirts labeled "BDRT" which stood for "Baby's Daddy Removal Team" and "Big Dogs Run Together."
Portland police officers got a call to check on a suicidal and armed man at an apartment complex. Aaron Campbell,25, came of the apartment walking backward toward police with his hands over his head. The Oregonian reported that police say Campbell ignored their orders to put his hands up. At which point one officer fired six bean bag shots at his back. Witnesses say they saw Campbell reach his arm around his back, where the beanbag struck him. Officer Ronald Frashour said he saw Campbell reach both hands around his waistband to get a gun, and so he shot Campbell in the back with an assault rifle. The jury acquitted the police officer with no criminal wrongdoing.
Victor Steen
17-year-old Victor Steen died when he fled from police, was tasered, crashed his bicycle and was run over by police cruiser. Steen committed a simple traffic violation while riding his bike. The deadly incident was captured on video. The officers were acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing.
Ronald Madison and James Brissette
In 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, five officers opened fire on an unarmed family on the east side of the Danziger Bridge, killing 17-year-old James Brissette and wounding four others. Next, officers shot at brothers Lance and Ronald Madison. Ronald, a 40-year-old man with severe mental disabilities, was running away when he was hit, and an officer stomped on and kicked him before he died. In a federal criminal trial, five officers involved in what have become known as the "Danziger Bridge Shootings" were convicted of various civil rights violations, but not murder.
On New Years morning, 2009, three Bay Area Rapid Transit officers pulled 22-year-old Oscar Grant and four other black men off a train in Oakland. You can view what happened afterwards in this Youtube video. In it, former-transit officer Mehserle can be seen shooting Grant in the back. During the trial, Mehserle argued that he thought Grant was reaching for a gun near his waistband. To stop this from happening, Mehserle said he intended to Tase him, but shot him with a pistol instead. He was sentenced to two years in prison and served 11 months.
On Nov. 23, an unarmed, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, was shot and killed by Michael Dunn after an argument over loud rap music. Dunn, 46, Davis through the window of a sport utility vehicle at a Jacksonville convenience store gas station before driving away, authorities say.Officials say Dunn parked next to the vehicle where Davis was sitting with three other teens. Dunn complained about the loud music and they started arguing. Dunn told police he thought he saw a gun and fired eight or nine shots into the vehicle. N He is charged with first degree murder.
On November 19, 2011, after his Life Aid medical alert necklace was inadvertently triggered, police came to Chamberlain's home and demanded that he open his front door. Despite his objections and statements that he did not need help, the police broke down Chamberlain's door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. Chamberlain was a 68-year-old, African-American, retired former-Marine, and a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections. He wore the medical alert bracelet due to a chronic heart problem. A grand jury reviewed the case and decided that no criminal charge would be made against police officers involved in the killing.
30-year-old Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, was arrested and sodomized with a broomstick inside a restroom in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The case became a national symbol of police brutality and fed perceptions that New York City police officers were harassing or abusing young black men as part a citywide crackdown on crime. One officer, Justin A. Volpe, admitted in court in May 1999 that he had rammed a broken broomstick into Mr. Louima's rectum and then thrust it in his face. He said he had mistakenly believed that Mr. Louima had punched him in the head during a street brawl outside a nightclub in Flatbush, but he acknowledged that he had also intended to humiliate the handcuffed immigrant. He left the force and was later sentenced to 30 years in prison. The commanders of the 70th Precinct were replaced within days of the assault. As the legal case wore on, Charles Schwarz, a former police officer, was sentenced in federal court in 2002 to five years in prison for perjury stemming from the torture case. A jury found that Mr. Schwarz had lied when he testified that he had not taken Mr. Louima to the station house bathroom where the assault took place.
16-year-old Kimani was shot four times in the front and side of his body and three times in the back by two New York City police officers as he left a friend's birthday party in Brooklyn on March 9, 2013. The only publicly identified eyewitness is standing by her claim that he was empty-handed when he was gunned down.
19-year-old college student McDade was shot and killed in March 2012 when officers responded to a report of an armed robbery of a man in Pasadena, Calif. He was later found to be unarmed, with only a cellphone in his pocket. His death has prompted his family to file a lawsuit, in which McDade's parents argue that he was left on the street for a prolonged period of time without receiving first aid. According to court documents, McDade's last words were, "Why did they shoot me?" The officers involved were initially placed on paid administrative leave but have since returned to duty.
Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, were killed in Cleveland after police officers fired 137 rounds into their car after a chase in December 2012. Officers said they saw a possible weapon, but no weapon or shell casings were found in the fleeing car or along the chase route.
Washington was shot by gang-enforcement officers Allan Corrales and George Diego in Los Angeles one night in 2010 after he approached them and appeared to remove something from his waistband. The officers said they'd heard a loud sound in the area and the 27-year-old, who was autistic, was looking around suspiciously. No weapon was ever recovered.
Police say that 29-year-old Ashley refused to stop splashing water from a drinking fountain on his face at the Denver Zoo one hot day in 2011, then made irrational comments and threw a trash can. The responding officers, who didn't dispute that he was unarmed, killed him with a Taser, saying he had "extraordinary strength." No criminal charges were filed against them.
Wendell Allen
Allen was fatally shot in the chest by officers executing a warrant on his house on March 7, 2012, in New Orleans. The 20-year-old was unarmed, and five children were home at the time of his death. Police found 4.5 ounces of marijuana on Allen after they killed him. An attorney for the family says that New Orleans police are investigating whether Officer Joshua Colclough was wrong to pull the trigger.
In 2005 in Sanford, Fla. (the same county in which Travyon Martin was killed), the 16-year-old was killed by two security guards, one of whom testified that Travares was trying to hit him with his car. But evidence showed that the bullet that killed the teen hit him in the middle of the back and that the guard kept firing even after the car was no longer headed toward him.
18-year-old Ramarley Graham was shot and killed in February of 2012, when Officer Richard Haste and his partner followed Graham into his grandmother's apartment where Graham was attempting to flush a bag of marijuana down the toilet. Haste fatally shot Graham, who was unarmed, in the chest. The officers did not have a warrant to be inside the home. A Bronx judge later tossed out an indictment against the NYPD cop. No weapon was ever uncovered from the scene.
Tyrone Brown
32-year-old former Marine from East Baltimore, Tyrone Brown was shot 12 times in a crowded bar after an off-duty Baltimore police officer fires 13 rounds at him for groping one of the officer's lady friend's. That officer, Gahiji Tshamba, was indicted for murder and faces a maximum life in prison charge if convicted. Tshamba was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Symbols speak to a different part of the brain than ordinary [modern] writing or language. It registers to the right brain; the intuitive, non-verbal, and visual part. More specifically the right brain deals with spacial and abstract relationships, intuition, and the subconscious. The right hemisphere is not bound by rational linear logic like the left hemisphere. The enigmatic language of symbolism serves as a bridge between the two nodes or polarities of intelligence. It goes beyond language to become a user-evolving technology as symbols promotes the cooperation and coordination in the simultaneous and unified inner-workings of the two brain hemispheres.
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Through balanced coordination, and simultaneous welding of both types of intelligences, a new formerly-invisible world opens up to us. The ancient technology of hieroglyphic symbolism becomes an evolutionary step ladder, optimizing and empowering the mind of the user.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect
September 27, 2013
Dear Artist,
Experiments published in 1999 by Cornell University researchers David Dunning and Justin Kruger showed Novak Djokovic, Serbian professional tennis player ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals
that unskilled individuals tended to rate their competence higher than average. The researchers figured the ignorance of standards of performance was behind a great deal of incompetence in a wide range of activities--reading, grammar, geography, driving a car, playing tennis.
They also found that competent people often underestimated their prowess because they falsely assumed that others have an equivalent understanding of their processes and problems.
For a given skill, Dunning-Kruger proposed that incompetent people will tend to overestimate their own level of skill, fail to recognize genuine skill in others, and fail to recognize the extreme nature of their own shortcomings.
The partial good news is that some incompetent students improved their ability to estimate their rank after minimal tutoring, even though they may not have actually improved.
In art workshops and mentoring sessions, I've noticed a few beginning artists who are impaled on Dunning-Kruger. One of the main reasons, in my observation, is the vast amount of incompetent work out there that is touted as either interesting or valuable. Because of this situation, art schools are rampant with cynicism and despair. Confused, the beginning student may think that good enough is good enough, it's all a mug's game, and the only thing that's important is some form of self-expression.
In comparison, in the game of tennis, results are measureable, and folks will pay to watch only the top pros. Not being Novak Djokovic is no joke. When I was a kid, the only one to stick around and watch my serves was my dad. I thought I was pretty good, and I told him, but that was when he decided to find me an art teacher.
In art schools and out, many beginning students are defying the Dunning-Kruger effect. In my experience they're mainly loners, hard workers and networkers who believe study and private application lead to quality. These same beginners are the ones who will become the competent artists of tomorrow. And they will always question their own competence.
Best regards,
PS: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others." (David Dunning and Justin Kruger)
Esoterica: The Dunning–Kruger research was done in the USA where over-confidence, fashionable optimism and hubris might have played a part. Further studies with East Asians showed opposite results. Asian incompetents knew they were doing poor work and took it as an opportunity to improve and to get along with others. These attitudes are deep-rooted in Asian cultures. "Real knowledge," said Confucius, "is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
On a wider scale, the Dunning-Kruger effect has been with us since the dawn of mankind and knows little of national borders. "The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole." (William Shakespeare, As You Like It,
Define incompetency pleaseby Mike Young, Oakville, ON, Canada
I really do need someone to define incompetency as it applies to art. I can discern when technical mastery of the media
Convolution AAstone sculpture
serves the artist's intent – and, of course, the converse. However, in the absence of hard metrics to measure against for aesthetic competency then inabilities cannot be measured in absolute terms. Therefore aesthetic competency is judged against a relative set of values that are not absolute. Each of us have our own aesthetic values (and they change over time, I have discovered in myself). A masterpiece in my present day judgment - say, one of the many of Frances Bacon's triptychs - may well be considered by many to be an incompetent piece of art by others. Without a definition of aesthetic competency, I assert that competency/incompetency is solely in the eye of the beholder – and we are all different.(RG note) Thanks, Mike. Of course competency is in the eye of the beholder. Take the print we've illustrated here, sent to us by Mike Barr. The cutline under the illustration on the FAC (Australia) website says: "Fremantle Arts Centre have Faces, Faces, Everywhereby Alex Maciver
announced the winners of the 38th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. Western Australia artist Alex Maciver was awarded the $15,000 Major Acquisitive Prize for his conceptual work, Faces, Faces Everywhere. How would your eye rate this one, Mike?
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Faces,Faces ,Everywhere-$15,000 award??? You have to be kidding right?
Mike-I like your sculpture-Convolution AA very much. Flowing lines and beautiful variety of color
in the marble you selected.
Guess I do not quite see what the judges saw in the piece, "Faces, Faces, Everywhere." It looks a bit like a, "Happy Face," which was, "everywhere," for a while. Maybe that is why they picked it. For me, it is a bit too obvious.
I had many many grade one students who could easily draw these. Unbelievable that this could be awarded a $15,000 prize.
I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can explain the alleged superiority of "Faces" to me. I've witnessed similar travesties in the past. Initially I put it down to my ignorance or lack of sophistication. I'm quite certain that was the wrong conclusion, but just how DO we explain and come to terms with it?
Similarly, take a look at the winner of the West Australian $45,000 Black Swan Portrait Prize last week...
Australia has the world's biggest art prizes and the worst paintings in the world seem to win them. See the world's richest landscape prize ($60,000) and the winners in 2011.
It is sheer chaos and you can see why traditional artists get very disheartened.
I do think it is difficult to define competency today when we have no markers. It is rather like judging a doctors performance in the 12th century- the Dark Ages without the knowledge of what medicine could be.
We are in the Dark Ages of Art.
Excerpted from an article on the sadly departed Robert Hughes in 2006 in "The Austrailian".
"Suppose you come up with the name of a (contemporary) figurative painter whose work is as sublimely impressive as, let us say, Velazquez. I think you'd be really hard put to," he says.
"There are a couple of really great figurative painters around: there's Antonio Lopez in Spain and, of course, Lucian Freud in England. But I don't think you could say that either of these guys were the mirror equivalent of a Velazquez or a Rembrandt. There are times when art, the medium, just isn't producing exceptional stuff."
We have stripped our art schools of rigor- I know I taught at one- so there is less and less discernment and students go there to express themselves-not to learn.
Faces makes a mockery of serious art
It is freedom of human expression that is important and we do well by encouraging it. Appreciation and paying for it is up to the individual.
It is discouraging to work hard to become a better artist, to perfect your drawing skills, your understanding of color, to work with different mediums and evolve as an artist, when this is what wins prizes. In Austin, the museum chose a pile of dirt in the corner. I used to think I was ignorant of what everyone else saw, but no longer.
Re: World's Richest Landscape Prize. At least the people know good art -- look at People's Choice.
What people think is valuable changes over time. As a culture today, we don't value "hard and studied" as highly anymore as "authentic, confident, easy, memorable, fresh, significant and dramatic." That doesn't say our standards have sunk; it says we are looking for different things.
I would encourage anyone reading this comment to look on Scott Burdick's website. There is a link to video of a speech he gave about the banishment of beauty in contemporary art, that worth the time to watch! -- look at the left bottom video clip on his home page.
The mysteries of competencyby Jennifer Meyers, Ocala, FL, USA
So can the Dunning-Kruger effect lead a person into the dilemma of being highly competent and incompetent at the same time? Peter Michaelson'sWanted Posterwhywesuffer.com
If you think you are competent but really are not or if you are competent but think you are not... how does this play out in real life? How does the impact of a person's own psyche play into the equation? What if a highly competent person with low self-esteem is in a workplace with incompetent people? Your email newsletter is wonderful! There is always something thought provoking or comforting or nurturing.(RG note) Thanks, Jennifer. If you are quite sure you're competent, you may not be. On the other hand, if you think you are incompetent, there is a very good chance that from time to time and on certain occasions, particularly when you get lucky, you are actually competent.
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I'd love to send that poster to the US Congress this morning. It's not only the art world that lacks competence.
The tea party guys should all be impeached
Around the world, some deliberative bodies break out into fist fights. Hmm.
I've also heard that witches don't sink when thrown into a pond...
Overlooking the errorsby Stewart Turcotte, Kelowna, BC, Canada
As an art dealer and gallery owner, I've had artists come to the gallery with the idea of becoming a showing artist and I
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do a critique of the work because they are not there yet and they may never be. It is particularly needed and helpful for the beginners because, as you said, they either overlook poor work or consider it good enough. I think a lot of them overlook their errors. I've noticed that some people who do figurative work have never taken a workshop with a model or looked at informed reference books. I tell them to look at various joints and they agree that bodies do not bend in the way they painted them.
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Loner and networker?by Bill Sander, Sarasota, FL, USA
As always, interesting and informative (and competent :-) However... how is one both a loner and a networker? Sarasota Chalk Festival
(RG note) Thanks, Bill. This letter evoked more interesting questions and confusion than any for a long time, which makes me think either I'm an incompetent letter writer, or that I'm at least a bit competent in stirring up a den of breeding nematodes. Yes, loners can be networkers. It just means they don't go to bars, restaurants, clubs or guilds to do it. And when they do turn up at workshops, they are the ones out there half a mile, set up and painting quietly by the glacier, who, after a rocky trudge by the guide or instructor, are reminded that the helicopter back to their private room in the lodge is coming in half an hour.
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What's it all about?by Regan Tausch, Bayville, NY, USA
I happen to be a self-taught artist, true to my Folk Art style. And I see evidence of artists who overestimate their
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accomplishment or maybe the patrons overestimate it, or both. I had very little self-esteem for much of my life, and thought I was a terrible artist and still think so in some ways. Having said that, I found my niche, and my art has improved greatly over the last 15 years - coinciding with when I started showing and selling my art. And my art has brought my fans much joy, and in turn given me back joy and insight into my own artwork. And that's what it's all about.(RG note) Thanks, Regan. In my opinion you're onto a good thought here. Artists who might consider themselves to be overestimating their competence should note that their patrons, who have often never tried their hand at art, nor do they know much about the subject but only know what they like, may themselves be among the ranks of the incompetents. And that's what it's all about.
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Ha, I wouldn't mind being an incompetent patron of the incompetent Vincent a couple of centuries ago!
Finding the vision in the artistby Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Port Moody, BC, Canada
Well, yes, there is that for sure and we have all witnessed it. But there is something else as well, which is
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shoehorning of talented beginners into doing what we do. I am talking about those brilliant newcomers with a vision of something new and exciting, who get harped at because they painted the lacrimal caruncle too pink.I'm just saying that Dunning-Krueger thing is sometimes very obvious, but can also be grossly misused. Many ingenious inventions are results of overcoming a lack of skill, or from lack of interest in using skills.Picasso is a prime example of the latter. If one had never heard of him and he brought his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to a crit, what might a critic say? Maybe you would have understood his vision and acknowledged all the skill that he already possessed, but the first critics who saw it did not. There is only one Picasso, but the urge to bring something new to the table is not that rare. That's what I think we should be careful not to stifle.Not everyone is focused on bringing something to be graded. Some people approach the teacher with hope of sharing a vision. Of course it's also up to them to communicate this. You would probably give a different crit if Picasso said that he was just learning how to realistically draw a female figure or if he said that he was trying to break new grounds. That's one reason why crits are difficult; you really need to make an effort to understand the person, not just what they made.What would I say to Picasso about his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon? I guess the best thing I could have done was to buy it!
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Really like your painting Tatjana. It captures the look and feel of our part of the world
You make a very good point here, competence is often in the eye of the beholder and the critic. I've found in online critiques that many who do realistic work can only see competence as it relates to how "real" it looks, when there is so much more to competence than that, and something can be very skilled indeed yet veer heavily from the path of realism. Creativity is also not to be underestimated in what it contributes to competence - something very creative but unpolished can still be exponentially better than what the most skilled technician can generate.
Thanks Milan, The Salt Spring Island experience was an amazing inspiration!
Thanks for your comment Nancy, I agree with you. I think that we are sometimes too quick to dismiss what we don't like. The discussion here whether it's better to communicate that dismissal with a white wash or with a harsh critique doesn't go into the root of the issue. The main point is that the decision of "not liking" disengages the lesser critic. I personally value and enjoy looking at technically skilled art, but I also experienced some thrilling discoveries by forcing myself to research unusual and intriguing art that I initially didn't like.
Nancy - refer to faces in the first comment
Perfecting the art of schmoozeby Liz Reday, South Pasadena, CA, USA
Contemporary art these days seems surprising and baffling. The application of paint in many paintings appears to
The Shoot (Under Sixth)oil on canvas40 x 30 inches
be done with the opposite of skill, and it's not just my opinion. Recently, I read an article in ArtForum about the "de-skilling of art." Skill in the painting process is a definite hindrance these days. Skill in sculpture is left to the artisans who manufacture the sculpture for the blue chip artists who come up with the idea and perhaps a sketch. Some major fine artists employ 50 - 100 other artists and artisans to actually hand make their art objects. This is good for the young artists who are employed while making valuable contacts in the high flying art market. In fact, some young artists are now using this employment as a beginning step to a blue chip career of their own. And good for them.But back to skill. Is skill just another talent to be outsourced by the dynamic, big bucks artist who spends most of his (or her) time & energy perfecting the art of schmooze? Competence can be hired. The artisan who pours your bronze and inks your etching plate or glues your doodads to the diorama is competent. The manager who hires all the artists who work in your gigantic studio is competent.The big idea artist is prized not for competence, but for that singular, original, raw vision. O.K., my cynical opinion is formed by reading way too many art and fashion magazines and spending way too much time online googling the art world. Sour grapes? You betcha! I just want to keep painting and have people admire and buy my work. But it isn't about being a "good" painter. People collect the art of artists who are already famous, or soon to be famous. What is a "good" painting? If the artist has proven to be in several museums and in the collections of discerning and successful art world collectors, then this artist is a good investment. This artist has galleries lining up to offer solo shows that sell out before they open. Skill does not even enter the equation. Searing, blazing, originality coupled with relevant comment on the state of our culture created with raw intensity subtly displaying the blips and splodges of the machine/hand of the artist… now that's a painting fit for the cover of the great art magazine.
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"The big idea artist is prized not for competence, but for that singular, original, raw vision".
Often they hire assistants to come up with the "big idea".
And other employees sign the work for them as well.
They are so skilled at the schmooze, that is all they have to do.
Happens all the time.
Thank you, Liz. Your comments will help support an argument I'm making in writing a paper for an Art Education course. And don't stop painting! Love your work.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full swing among less serious social artists. Why - because no one calls a spade a spade. All work is just great and everyone loves everyone's work. What's worse is that the Effect has its ultimate effect of elevating poor-quality artists into teachers.
Thank you. Needed this one.
Best regards
..."Humility is to know ones limitations".
Agree with Mike, and I would add that in my town it seems teachers are those who are liked on a social level, but have little real artistic skills or experience.
In Lake Wobegon all the people are above average. We know that can't be true. Yet we encourage those that are way below average and will likely stay there. None of like to be below average. We want to do better if we can. If we have the talent, the drive, the passion, work-ethic, the time, etc we can rise above incompetence or below average. Art is unlike other endeavors where you quickly find out that you just can't do it. Golf, baseball, basketball are such endeavors where you find quickly that you won't make it as a professional. To recognize that you just are not good enough is hard to take personally. Art, unfortunately, does not have a way to cull out the incompetent. No one will tell you that your work is bad. You have to determine that on your own.
That photo of Novak Djokovak makes me hurt.
There are several problems with art: it is a wonderful pastime for lovers of art. It's democratic in that anyone can pick up some supplies and try their hand at it. Quality is subjective in the same manner beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The worst thing that can happen to hobbyists is when they sell a piece at the local crafts fair. They are convinced their work is on a par with the greats and thereafter become longsuffering artists that aren't appreciated.
I'm not surprised this study was conducted in the US, or the era. There was an unfortunate mindset in education during that time that poor self esteem contributed to inferior academic performance. Educators insisted if we told the little darlings "You're wonderful!" they would be. That translated into promoting students when they should have been held back and awarding unearned high grades. We still have some of that. Instead of demanding competence standards were lowered.
Regardless, the best in any vocation will arise in driven people who are willing to persevere, do the work, and challenge their own skill.
I noticed this effect on the ski slopes. When I lived many years in Sun Valley, Idaho, I was always amazed at how tourists overestimated their skiing prowess. They then were taken down the slope in the ski patrol sled, or, would suffer injury.
As an art instructor I found this letter so insightful. It explains what I have observed so many time--over confident incompetents who need to back up and really see what they're doing. Why is it that some simply "get it" and others don't?
I've been mulling the dunning kruger effect for a few days now. Admittedly it makes me a like distrustful of my own self evaluation. However, a broader view leads me to conclude that in all aspects of my life, as with my painting, questioning my own competence is precisely what drives me to consider, explore, and improve. Indeed, these are wonderful means to enriching my life. Thanks for the reminder.
Those who think they know it all are really annoying to those of us who actually do.
I guess it sounds better to tell someone that they are a Dunning-Kruger. And maybe I should try telling my boss that I have to go for a quick Mednick after lunch...
I have been teaching workshops for many years and often wondered why someone with just a couple of workshops under their belt, and in my mind, clearly a ways to go, would ask me how to approach a gallery.
Love this...Makes me happy ...never satisfied is a good thing! Once in a while a painting makes me feel like it encompasses all of what I've learned in a good way. But each painting is a lesson and a challenge, and always room for improvement. Is not always linear, but jumps around.
I very much enjoy your letters. They are thoughtful and informed and contain meat for those of us with teeth.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect applies to me. Once I was a brilliant rising star artist, now I'm an old mediocre artist, what happened? If it wasn't for the fact that I can't leave the painting alone and walk away from it, I would have given up this gig a long time ago and lived a normal life. Being an artist is like living in the rift of time and space (Thats a Dr Who reference). It means we live in the shadowlands never sure of our footing.
I asked Maurice Sendak once if he ever suffered from writer's/illustrator's block and he immediately answered "All the time, ALL the time!" Struggle= growth, complacency=stagnation.
Maybe, you are right about those who think that theirs are good enough. Mine is not good enough. As a student my work was on the wall with others and I had a paint brush fixing it.
Even today, I am a harsh critic of my art.
This is the trouble with art. I see it all the time in workshops and in galleries. It is one of the only fields where even very smart people are so befuddled that they will pay a lot of money for really shoddy work--and show it proudly.
I'm a student in university who aspires to a career in some sort of visual art. This material you present is so valuable to me. I do not hear of this sort of view as Dunning Kruger in my art appreciation classes.
In our high-school they let everybody pass pretty well because their standards are so low and they don't want to hurt anyones feelings
In Mike Barr's remark above where Dunning Kruger is in effect among not so serious hobby painters I've noted that professional instructors are always trying to get them to become more professional. Maybe the pros should stop doing this and just kid the amateurs along and let them be happy.
Wilson - that's just what teachers and workshop leaders do here.. as a result they get the same people coming back for years to workshops and classes for not much real benefit apart from the social aspect of it all... which of course is important for a lot of people and nothing wrong with that.
I'm not convinced that applying D-K to artists is that clear-cut because I think Art is too subjective. Do buyers of art then also suffer from the D-K effect? I'm running a personal experiment right now. I have a 14" x 10" canvas painted in Cerulean Blue (quite an expensive pigment). It's just a flat panel of blue, but I explain it's an expensive pigment and I've titled the piece "Not Yellow". I have no intention of selling, however you would be surprised at the interest it has generated!
I find this rather ironic considering someone's painting of "donuts" can sell for loads even though it's something anyone can do. But it does sell for a ridiculous amount and it's popular only because of the backing of a name. Someone said it best: "How can anyone criticise art? You put a brick in the Tate today and it's art."
When things start to get you down don't try to explain yourself make a nice cup of tea, sit down and relax. Everything come's out in the wash.
By the way, I like featured artist Ulrich Gleiter's painting, "Three Boats", very gutsy.
It's good to think on these esoteric things now and again. I wonder who is the judge of "good enough" ? or possibly even "really good" ?
This blog gets more intelligent responses than any other art blog on the net. And a few dumb ones too. Thank you to everyone who contributes. I always learn a lot. Sussex, UK
Dear Paula Green-with-envy (above) A brick IS art when it's put in the Tate.
I'm so glad you posted this Robert. I've mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect on a previous post of yours. I'd like to think that you actually read the comments and maybe learned a little from people who post here. Regardless, this effect can be seen everywhere in every aspect of life. I've met so many cocky overly confident people who are unaware of their limited ability or knowledge, I wish I had their confidence. Yet, I pick myself apart so much that as someone above said "I was a brilliant rising star artist, now I'm an old mediocre artist." What happened is that I saw all my flaws and shortcomings - drove myself to obsessive overwork, that I gave up. The interesting thing is that my peers (from decades ago) who were unaware of their shortcomings kept at their art. Their skill level of work is now superior to mine. So the lesson I've learned and would like to pass along is to find joy in what your doing. It's OK to seek improvement, but take on a challenge because it brings you some sort of joy. It is find to see an ideal in another's work and happily strive towards meeting the challenge. But, comparison has a darker side. Roosevelt said - Comparison is the thief of joy.
Consider an incompetent artist who tends to overestimate her skill; her skill 'level' must be compared to a standard in order to have a reference point; what is that standard? The summation of historical skill as compiled...by whom? The cultural norm of her day? Other artists? Curators? Sales?
Consider the highly competent artist who underestimates her skill; Is she highly skilled because she is a prodigy? Is she highly skilled because of years of academic instruction? Is she highly skilled because of dogged persistence? The question again begs a reference point from which either we or she can determine the 'level' of her skill in order to determine whether she is actually underestimating her skill or perhaps is 'actually' correctly evaluating her level of skill.
Consider the range of sale prices of the paintings of a competent, selling artist, and then consider that same range of sale prices just minutes after the news of this artist's demise becomes public. In many cases this range doubles. Did this artist over-estimate or under-estimate her skill level?
Another complexity is the skewed perspective of skill level when 'branding' comes into play. Picasso had already mastered many media and styles as a young prodigy, as determined by, I must guess, his patrons, his galleries, the media, his self-promotion, etc. At some point he is able to begin assembling goat-heads on broomsticks stuck in up-turned washtubs as art, and there are many who clamored, and continue to clamor, to pay exorbitant sums for this. Apart from the branding of Picasso's name, I doubt we would see the skill level in some of his art. Picasso, from what I have read, never underestimated his level of skill, and yet he could produce both highly skilled work as well as some real crap.
Whether our opinions of our work overestimates or underestimates our level of skill, it is nothing more than a pattern of thought if divorced from a standard or reference point of skill by which we can evaluate the 'correctness' of the artist's opinion. I would want to know how to derive that reference point.
Mike Barr, people coming back for classes for years IS THE benefit - can't you see?
Robert Sesco - I enjoyed your essay, it's very thoughtful. I am an admirer of Picasso - his life story is an amazing case study for any creative person.
I can only add that I could not agree more with Dunning-Kruger.
For the Paula Green/Bart Keller thread... Sorry Bart, but a brick is a brick is a brick, even in the Tate! Thanks for bringing me a smile this morning.
Thanks for this thought provoking letter. It has reminded me of Cezanne's deathbed remark: (paraphrased) " ah, too bad, I was just beginning to figure out how to paint..."
Thanks to you, robert, for such an interesting and thought provoking thread. Thanks, Kathryn, for the Roosevelt quote. Thanks, Kristin, for how you defined Robert's writings, containing meat for those of us with teeth.
I've always thought of talent as equal to ambition and of myself as a person who was lucky enough (and damned enough) to be an artist. I struggle some of the time-when not struggling, I'm skeptical that my work is worthwhile- that it means something or challenges me and that i'm not just adding to the tons of useless junk on this earth.
I'm paraphrasing here, but really honest (constructive?) criticism is one of the hardest things to come by. I press friends and my wife all the time for honest reactions to my work. As artists, you all know just how difficult it is to see what you've done objectively. I wonder how we could impart this honest reviewing to many of the "geniuses" out there who think that they are the next rising star. Easy to do in the sports or business world- but when the black and white falls away into gray, so do the words offered in challenge.
I started life drawing at the age of 16 that was in 1979, England at Leek College of Art and Design. We were all so embarrassed and giggled at the 50 year old male model who was allowed to wear a pouch over his privates, which is what made us giggle. Eventually our instructor dismissed the model for two weeks on full pay and we had to model for each other - nude or in our swim suits we could choose. We learnt quickly to treat our models with the up most respect, its not an easy job after all. Although, we could never quite figure out why our female models could not wear a pouch over their privates, after all the equal opportunities act was brand new. But who were we to question the ancient rules of the Royal Academy, after all the modern art colleges did not have real skeletons or huge pure white plaster of paris Greek Gods (with fig leaves) or horses to draw from.
I think that I will never achieve my ambition of becoming a Rembrandt or a Vermeer though when I went to art school in France that is exactly what I wanted to do. Early on I searched and searched for teachers who could train me in the classical style. Most practicing artists who had gone that classical route and were now teachers were into experimental art and had left the classical stuff far behind. That's going back 35 years or so. I've pushed myself hard since then. My internal critic is lenient and harsh. I'm satisfied with some parts of work and disappointed with others. I've sold quite a few pieces and wonder sometimes if people have made a mistake in buying them. Lastly I will not stop painting. I don't think I will ever find a "comfort zone" where I can guarantee the outcome of any brush to easel. I think I will always try to imagine where I want to go and do my best to get there. Better that someone produce less than Met work than to pay too much heed to a harsh critic and not try at all.
I draw because I must, but I will not suffer myself to fall into complacency. I keep the scribbles and awful work to remind myself of where I've been and how far I have to go. When I was younger I was passably good at most things, but I've realized there is no satisfaction in being passably good. I do not wish for accolades, indeed, I avoid them for fear I will succumb to ego. I've come to peace with popular art, it no longer annoys me, I think because I've realized that it is emotion without skill, but lack of skill does not negate the emotion and that is what people are responding to. I cannot throw stones at a happy face, it's a pointless and fruitless action. People know great art when they see it, because it takes the breath away, it stands on it's own. In the absence of great art, well, happy faces will fill the void. It's up to each of us to lead by example, to put only our best effort forward and give constructive criticism to those that will listen.
Many beginning artists overestimate their skills. However, if they use that overconfidence to spur them to continue to paint, they may become good at it. I'd rather see that than people who stop painting because of low self-esteem. I know a hundred times what I did when I started, but it seems like the more you know, the more there is to know. We should all just do as well as we can.
Fabulous thoughts and comments- they show depth and range. I believe I may have stumbled upon my kind of place! Thank you!
Thanks so much for putting the painting by Ulrich Gleiter at the end of the clickbacks. It's a perfect example of a brilliant painting: immediate, fresh, original - the style of brushwork matches the sudden impact of the wave. The artist's skill is in capturing the momentary event with great big strokes and striking color. Good subject.
hey Rick - I couldn't agree more! (lol)
When this letter arrived last week I was so depressed I didn't even open it. The reason? I and at least one other person I know of had just had experience of the Dunning-Kruger effect, from one person on behalf of another! We had been asked for feedback on a video that had been made of our club's activities. The introductory graphics were good, except for the most important name being misspelled, and a statement that was simply wrong. The rest was mediocre: no colour correction and terrible sound. We both tried to be polite, and kept it simple, so the message would be clear: he's going to have to do better than this.
We were very sharply put in our places by the one who had hired the videographer, with the information that not only had he captured brilliantly the essence of who we were, he was the best in the country anyway, which was her opinion, not provable fact. Why ask us for constructive feedback (which was totally private, by email, so no-one was publicly embarrassed) if all you want is praise?
I'm still despondent. Out there is a mediocre video that is supposed to show how good we are at what we do, and there is nothing I can do about it.
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