Judge the productions of an artist

Posted January 25th, 2010.

Art to me is not about conformity to some movement or specific guidelines. To some extent, you look like you know what you are talking about when you are successful at classifying paintings into specific era or classify a poem by its literary movements. That way, it is easier to classify every piece of works into predetermined drawers. But, the purists of these respective buy bonsai tree art forms will judge the productions of an artist according to some guidelines. While I concur to half of this statement, the last portion is not my conception of Bonsai. Bonsai purist will tell that bonsai is an artistic activity and that it must respect strict guidelines of design.