Reviews for A Canvas And A Struggle

[AloneInTheDark]

Started really well

I liked how this short started. It had a very mellow atmosphere, the style is awesome and the music was superb. It was really cool how he turned it off in the movie. The smoke effect was also great.

I was hoping that the rest would be as cool as the beginning, but then it suddenly became dramatic in a couple of seconds. The concept itself was ok and i thought it had potential, but I don't understand why the abrupt change of mood was necessary. It's fine if you want to take a piss with modern art, but it couldve been done in a more subtle, maybe more mellow manner.

It is great how you got people to think about the subject in the reviews though. I'm a big fan of modern art myself and it's interesting to see how people are so hung up about this classifying as art or not. The entire conclusion of modern art is that everything is art. I much rather see art as an open conceptual way of thinking, however bizarre it sometimes may be, than as a boring 'who can draw this landscape/human in the most realistic manner' contest.

AITD

[Aftrbrnr]

Done before, but. . .

As a few other reviewers have noted, the concept to thismovie was done before a couple of years ago and bears enough similar paralells to be wary of a rip-off. Hopefully, this is just pure coincidence and not a pure copy.

[Renegade-Hamster]

I've seen the same thing before

It was a rotoscope cartoon of a guy shooting himself through the mouth, with the blood going onto a canvas behind him. The blood splatter made a picture of his face. I believe it was called "Self Portrait". Pretty much the same idea. Some could accuse you of plagiarism.

Was the beret necessary for us to understand he was an artist? Also... Artsy McFartsy? Talk about ruining the mood! :D

[BarlowOne]

Hrmm

Right... so art is what you can get away with, but the guy in the animation obviously did not get away with blowing his head open. How can people say this is deep? Are you emo or something? Killing yourself for something you believe in is typically heroic, but just to get a splatter of blood on a canvas? What the hell is wrong with you people... this is not an example of a deep form of art, this is an example of the idiots of the world thinking that killing themselves is sacrifice.
Morale dilemmas aside, it was very well animated, so I give you a six because there are several factors that should be taken into account when rating an animation.

[luckinout]

it is ok

it is not that great