averygoodun42 | art meme

Your result for The Personality Profile Art Test...

Natural and Warm

60% Abstract, 93% Impressionist, 27% Renaissance, 100% Japanese, 80% Islamic, 81% Agreeable, 3% Challenging and 87% Expressionist!

Your results show that you prefer Impressionist art. This is the most popular art form. People who like representational paintings tend to be more conscientious than average. People in this category like things that make sense and prefer being able to relate to things around them.

People in this category tend to prefer the finer comforts in life and tend to be more traditional by nature. They enjoy beauty in the form of nature and natural elements. They tend to prefer the familiar, but are aware that things must change.

You also scored higher on agreeableness than on challenging.

People with high agreeableness scores engage positively with other people. They are keen to understand people's feelings and feel real warmth for others. As they are so empathic, they like to make sure other people are happy and will do what they can to put people at their ease.

Monet once said: "For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment... It is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value."

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The problem with this test is that, as a trained artist, I know how much work went into most of those pieces, and most of that work depends on the talent to persevere on the task at hand. Yes, there's also other talent that is required, such as the ability to see things (either as they are or as you want to distort them to be), the use of media and such, but honestly, the main talent is the interest in the work, because most art is like most other jobs in that the harder (and longer) you work at it, the better you become.

The ability to see artistically is not constrained to artists. It is there for all people if they are willing to be trained. Some are gifted with the ability and don't take much training, true, but even then the ranges are broad, and much training is involved.

The ability to use media effectively is also a matter of practice. Just about everything is a mater of practice, and that requires interest.

So, believing that, there was only one piece I voted the artist as not being talented at all. I suppose that makes me "agreeable" rather than "challenging", but it doesn't limit my ability to critique, which is what I think they mean by "challenging".

Am I over-analyzing this? Oh hell yeah. It just happened to strike a nerve.

"Everyone can cook!" Gusteau said. Ego ended up agreeing that, yes, everyone may be able to cook, but not everyone was an artist.

I disagree. Everyone has an artist inside them (in whatever form their art takes, whether it be painting, cooking, math, ministry, construction, living, etc.). Everyone. Period. Whether they access and nurture that artist is another question. And that's okay.

That said, the results' explanation is pretty accurate. ;-)