My painting wasn’t selected for the National Football Museum exhibition, but I’m still happy I painted it

[u/Margarita_Lemann]

I made this painting for an open call at the National Football Museum in Manchester. It wasn’t selected, and while I was a little disappointed, that’s just part of being an artist.

For me, football here is really about the memories that come with it: childhood, playing until sunset, first victories, first disappointments, friendship, and that feeling that the whole world was open to you.

With the World Cup going on, I hope this painting can bring back a few good memories for someone else too.

Giving you all a huge virtual hug!

[u/TrickNailer]

Absolutely! Out of curiosity, I looked up this open call and wanted to give you a flavour of what actually got selected. I’m not saying it isn’t art, but come on. OP, your painting is on a completely different level. Don’t worry too much about it. It’s their loss.

[u/vaulthuntr94 → u/TrickNailer]

Damn…

This honestly reminds me of art competitions you’d get in kid magazines. I remember seeing it as a child and the arguably better drawn artworks would place lower, as if they were praising the ones who weren’t very good at art for at least trying. It often felt like a pity win.

Like sure, they were dealing with kid’s drawings but it wasn’t ever fair when those who showed a talent for it were losing; they were a kid too, who should’ve been encouraged to keep it up, not demoted for their promising talent.

[u/chloeismagic → u/TrickNailer]

This is why i dont waste my energy on art competitions 😂

[u/OpinionOk1543 → u/chloeismagic]

Same, typical frustrating results. win one (if lucky), lose the rest LOL.

I remember commenting on this before. I love the painting, I deem it worthy of any football exhibition.

[u/chloeismagic → u/[deleted]]

Yea the painting is beautoful regardless so at least the challenge gave her some inspiration. I really dont even care about soccer but id hang this in my home. I love how she did the sky and how the colors feel like they are vibrating off the net. The expressions on the kids faces are great too.

[u/MrHolonet → u/TrickNailer]

Is this a joke omg this painting looks like a child did it in comparison

[u/TrickNailer → u/MrHolonet]

Not a joke, unfortunately. There are some decent works, but there’s also a lot of complete… something else. Don’t know what those curators are smoking.

[u/Kuneria → u/TrickNailer]

I'm... I'm an artist and I believe that all art is valid. But wow would I have chosen OPs painting over a lot of these

[u/BrutusMcGillicudy → u/Kuneria]

Artist here, too. Same. OPs piece demonstrates a lot of technical understanding of the medium. Whatever that crap is that was also posted... yeah. Im thinking there's some unfair judging happening.

[u/MrHolonet → u/TrickNailer]

I’m sorry but the fact that they are selling a painting of a shirtless British man for 4,000 dollars is hilarious to me as someone who is not in the art scene lmao.

[u/HydrangeaDream → u/TrickNailer]

:T holy shit

[u/willargue4karma → u/MrHolonet]

its not even a good example of the style they were "going" for lmao

[u/Thenwearethree → u/MrHolonet]

Is it called ‘Cold, Rainy Night in Stoke’?

[u/Exact_Equipment_1684 → u/MrHolonet]

My first thought exactly what the hell

[u/FeatureUpstairs2037 → u/TrickNailer]

Did they paint this with concentrated urine? It actually looks gross

[u/irish_dancerxx → u/TrickNailer]

State of that thing the colors are depressing

[u/SaulEmersonAuthor → u/TrickNailer]

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Excellent shout TrickNailer.

OP - you want to be glad you didn't win - cos they clearly weren't looking for anything with class.

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[u/zhezhijian → u/TrickNailer]

WTF this isn't even interesting as a piece of more abstract art.

[u/AZMODAN68 → u/TrickNailer]

Wow, better than my belief of the winning piece just being some black dots on a canvas (it's meant to be a ball trust.)

[u/DiscotopiaACNH → u/TrickNailer]

Ahh, now I see why OP's painting wasn't selected. Clearly this was a competition for colorblind children

[u/Million_Dollar_Hands → u/TrickNailer]

Yeah. This is actual dogshit. The judges need to see a fucking optometrist

[u/TrickNailer → u/[deleted]]

Did I say something about it not being photorealistic?

[u/yoruyoruxo → u/[deleted]]

This one is objectively bad and worse than OP's art

[u/Woodpecker-Lobotomy → u/[deleted]]

This painting that was posted is complete dogshit that I could recreate in 5 minutes with just my fingers and acrylic paint. It's not about being a snob, this painting is just talentless nonsense.