my crit with group 1A & victor

today I underwent a critique with my group of 1A. it was somewhat unexciting and a little uninformative. the only reasonable comment i got out of it was from the t a, Victor, he said a couple things that let me think a little more about some issues ive been having. one of them pertains to scale of my works; the statement was questioning why so large, it could be more significant if the size was more in relation to us, over a massive scale and in-your-face. it was odd that there were no questions it was just more of a stare and silence type of thing. another thing that victor covered was asking for a more cropped in view, getting down to the nitty gritty of the piece and not letting it be so elegantly flowing and contextual. as for what i got from him during the entire critique of the class i was on the right path. the use of ambiguity, the manner of handling the paint, and the decisive yet withdrawn ideas behind a painting, and for this i feel that he truly understanding and also questioning what was happening within a painting. as for everyone else i feel that if i didn't stand there and give an explanation it would have remained a silent stare, which is good and bad because i felt that there was a sense of marvel. it also let me understand that there isn't much to say, i find that the work really takes on its own perception and everyone gets there own understand of what is happening, which is also something i was looking for; as a work of art i want to create something beautiful while challenging the viewer to find their own experience. i would never want to stand by a work and explain it, i want the work to have an intimate conversation within the viewer, and by having silence it shows there is marvel, volumes of misunderstand, and detailed quantities of different experiences. silence also shows that there is an attentiveness to engage into a work while disregarding a finite understand. sometimes silence can be better; and the questions that had been engaged were mediocre subjective responses to fill the ten minutes that were handed to each student...