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I have never been more excited to be done with art courses than I have been this year, but not because of the workload; I finished all my work easily, the thing that got me was the constant love-fest that went on between a a lame abstract-art group of ladies that decided to infest my courses this year in the drawing departments. I fucking swear the most commonly used phrase during the critiques was:
"You've found something here, I'm not sure what it is, but you've found something that works and it really speaks to me."
Yeah asshole, thanks for saying nothing of content and completely dodging the point of being constructive with your critiques. Gah, I wanted to tear off some heads at one point in time.
One of 'em made a bunch of has marks on a large piece of paper while throwing in some pastel nebulous smudges, one wasted lots of oils and acrylics by painting in monochrome with a palette knife, one attempted to render forms and presented her work with unrefined uncut edges torn from her sketchbook, another lady cut out a bunch of squares and painted them one colour and then stitched them all together, etc... it was very terrible.
I'd even consider the guy that just did video-game art to be more visually appealing... it's sad, but whatever. We're all students. I just wish people that couldn't draw wouldn't hide behind the fact they can't create a believable form through constructive placement of line by calling every steaming load they pass under the instructor's nose an "abstraction" or a "representive form". I'm not angry about really... just very sad that it happens, that they get away with it, and that they're calling themselves artists. Rarely do they create something aesthetically pleasing, and when they do it's an accident.
Ugh, that and people that drip a media unto a dampened sheet of paper... no, I'm done. So happy to be out of there. I made my metals stuff, and I don't have to deal with pseudo-abstract expressionists any more unless I want to. It's like those artists that can't make hands and feet so they hide them off the page or behind the back of their figure. We've all done it (we being artists) at least once until we took the time to figure out a form that works or learned to make a real enough limb.
The draftsmen in the class affect me less, they're just anal with their crazy rulers and perspective. Visually compeling in the distance they can achieve but I often find content of the work to be lacking; granted there are always exceptions. Then there are the comic artists that draw in typical anime form and shade everything with those quick hatches or those lame glass-like patches of whatever.
Losing it... I'm done, fini. It's all over.
I just drew a cartoon Josh on a piece of paper for unknown reasons... but he has a mohawk that I am erasing down a bit to be more Joshesque. I also drew Jon with a fish on his head, and Kousaku crying about mud on his nose. Is it mud?
Kousaku, stop rooting like a piggy; you are not a truffle pig!
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"You've found something here, I'm not sure what it is, but you've found something that works and it really speaks to me."
Yeah asshole, thanks for saying nothing of content and completely dodging the point of being constructive with your critiques. Gah, I wanted to tear off some heads at one point in time.
One of 'em made a bunch of has marks on a large piece of paper while throwing in some pastel nebulous smudges, one wasted lots of oils and acrylics by painting in monochrome with a palette knife, one attempted to render forms and presented her work with unrefined uncut edges torn from her sketchbook, another lady cut out a bunch of squares and painted them one colour and then stitched them all together, etc... it was very terrible.
I'd even consider the guy that just did video-game art to be more visually appealing... it's sad, but whatever. We're all students. I just wish people that couldn't draw wouldn't hide behind the fact they can't create a believable form through constructive placement of line by calling every steaming load they pass under the instructor's nose an "abstraction" or a "representive form". I'm not angry about really... just very sad that it happens, that they get away with it, and that they're calling themselves artists. Rarely do they create something aesthetically pleasing, and when they do it's an accident.
Ugh, that and people that drip a media unto a dampened sheet of paper... no, I'm done. So happy to be out of there. I made my metals stuff, and I don't have to deal with pseudo-abstract expressionists any more unless I want to. It's like those artists that can't make hands and feet so they hide them off the page or behind the back of their figure. We've all done it (we being artists) at least once until we took the time to figure out a form that works or learned to make a real enough limb.
The draftsmen in the class affect me less, they're just anal with their crazy rulers and perspective. Visually compeling in the distance they can achieve but I often find content of the work to be lacking; granted there are always exceptions. Then there are the comic artists that draw in typical anime form and shade everything with those quick hatches or those lame glass-like patches of whatever.
Losing it... I'm done, fini. It's all over.
I just drew a cartoon Josh on a piece of paper for unknown reasons... but he has a mohawk that I am erasing down a bit to be more Joshesque. I also drew Jon with a fish on his head, and Kousaku crying about mud on his nose. Is it mud?
Kousaku, stop rooting like a piggy; you are not a truffle pig!
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