Group Work

I agree with her completely. The "critique" of her painting is merely an excuse to gang up on an outsider. This is the common thing in such group evaluation sessions, now become so popular in education. It is also the inevitable result of "group therapy." It becomes a way to bully and to enforce conformity.

It is perhaps especially pernicious in art, because artists must be outsiders or they are no good, they have nothing to say. Group criticism in art is an ideal way to destroy art.