Meaning
The art world, and many other creative fields, do try to pigeonhole people into snug boxes with an accompanying label.
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Imagine a lot of little boxes, ("pigeonholes") and each one has a label. It's a bit like a mail area for a company where you pick up the mail from the hole with your name on it. People try to put the artists into a 'box' with a particular label so that they know what to refer to them as.
- Imagine a lot of little boxes, ("pigeonholes") and each one has a label.
- It's a bit like a mail area for a company where you pick up the mail from the hole with your name on it.
- People try to put the artists into a 'box' with a particular label so that they know what to refer to them as.
- For instance, 'he's an impressionist' or 'her work is in the style of [x]'.
- It is done so that people can make easy comments about them and try to sort them into the relevant 'box' rather than think that someone can have created something new or different.
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Imagine a lot of little boxes, ("pigeonholes") and each one has a label. It's a bit like a mail area for a company where you pick up the mail from the hole with your name on it.
People try to put the artists into a 'box' with a particular label so that they know what to refer to them as. For instance, 'he's an impressionist' or 'her work is in the style of [x]'.
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