By thekyledavid - 05/08/2015 16:47 - United Kingdom - Oxford

Today, I entered a painting I'd worked on for weeks into an art competition. I won nothing. I wouldn't care so much if the guy I lost out to hadn't submitted a blank canvas and called it a "conceptual piece". FML
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thekyledavid 13

Hey, OP here. I just thought that you guys might be interested in knowing that the contest was actually rigged. One of the judges and the winner were in cahoots, and they halved the prize money. They were found out and had to return the money. I still wasn't ranked high enough to win though, but at least now I lost to someone who submitted actual art.

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mds9986 24

Art always confused me. You have great artists winning nothing and not having their work known, while other artists draw nothing but a blue line and sells it for millions.

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JupiterPainon 17

You can always start again with a blank slate

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ProbablyHuman666 10

I can beat that. Submit nothing and talk about "what is something?"

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MedChew 19

An empty canvas stand -signified an artist who has given up art for its modern absurdity

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MelTheGreat 23

Well, look at the bright side. They probably didn't get published on FML like you. It's quite the accomplishment.

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Goblin182 26

Modern art: Talentless people convincing pretentious people that if they "don't get it" they have no class.

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JazNim17 18

That's modern art for you. My roommate, an art major, did an extra-credit paper on a recent "great artist" that her teacher adored. I had to help her come up with a way of saying "he only paints straight lines on top of solid colors" in a complimentary way. This after she spent days working on an art project for that class. I felt insulted for her.

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Colon_Man 17

Say that "only a true art professional can see it" and watch them all go gaga - climbing all over each other to be the first to say they see it.

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laden_swallow09 34

I've yet to find a good answer to the question, "So, how's that Liberal Arts degree working for ya?" Don't let it get you down; it's art. No one but the snobbiest of critics really care.

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urake 10

Art isn't about how much work you put into it, how skilled the artist is, art's worth is how the art makes the viewer feel, and his blank painting might have just been more witty and inspiring to some

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middlenamefrank 8

Art can appeal to either the aesthete (i.e. it can actually be beautiful) or it can appeal to the snobby "artiste" crowd. The show you entered into obviously was more for the second type....don't worry that you didn't impress that group of phonies. The rest of us appreciate actual art.

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