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Enzie,
You are relatively new to the forum and will find that artists, museums, galleries, art shows, judges, critics, patrons, and anyone else regardless of race, creed or religion who does not subscribe to the narrow range of portrait realism favored in this forum might be labeled evil, incompetent, publicity seeking, tasteless, and have subsequently and systematically been dumbed down by schools, museums, Madison Avenue and all others involved in the effort to make life difficult for classic realists.
I also fear that these characterizations are only cleaned up descriptions of how these same critics really feel. Fundamentalism is scary. But hang in. You will find a lot of value within the forum.
Judging,
I agree that multiple judges might be better than a single point of view but nevertheless question the value of having judging to begin with. Obviously a juried show with limited space must have some means to reduce pieces to be hung. But most shows would have entirely different recognition/awards with different judges. The outcome is mostly the opinion of one judge at one moment in time.
Who should care? It's his (her) opinion/statement and is very singular. At best judging stirs argument and discussion but in the end the only happy person is the winner (and some family and friends, maybe).
As much as I harbor no great respect or need for judging I also don't think that it serves any good purpose to demean and unfairly second guess those same judges. What reason do we have to believe that any judge paid any attention to the title of a painting? I have only judged a few shows and in each case was not given the name of the artist or the title and would not have found reason to weigh the title in my judgment.
For the life of me I don
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