commentary over the ages and how frustrating it is

So true...To me, the commentary and ongoing dialogue over centuries seems to define elite culture in China particularly, and the West as well. It's too bad for those that don't have time to immerse themselves in the tradition, but that is unfortunately the states of things. I fully relate to the frustration of not being able to get into the discourse. It makes me angry. All the lovely scribbles in the clouds are the true value; it's not the beautiful images that just about anyone with some technical skill could reproduce.

At the same time, to be sellable, artists often do have to use tropes that are easily digestible by the masses (of which I am a part).



If you can manage an image that no one can forget, all the better.