Only Date if you Hate Each Other! Also, Modern Art Sucks
So, I was at a college event with a friend of mine. I haven't been in college for some seven or eight years, mind, but I was there for moral support, as he got one of his photographs in the gallery.
So first, the dating rant. One of his peers approached us and followed us around like a long lost puppy for the rest of the hour and a half we were there. At some point, the conversation turned to dating, and more importantly, dating friends. I'm of a mind that if you're not dating/married to your best friend, it isn't going to work. Why? Because this is a person that you're supposed to be with more than anyone else. A relationship is built on common interest, respect, and trust. Isn't a friendship as well? But with all of these people saying not to date friends, they're throwing all of that out and building relationships on superficial things like appearance, sex, and money. Convenience. It's all convenience. And when a relationship becomes too inconvenient- long distance, money draining, or just too much work to find common ground- or even boring- people ditch it, be it a marriage or a dating relationship. Love isn't just a fluffy, happy feeling, people. That's hormones. Love, real love, is also a choice, because sometimes you aren't going to get along. Sometimes it's not going to be fun. Sometimes you have to choose to trust and respect that other person and work through your problems. Like a work of art, it's just that- work. And when something isn't quite right, you fix it. Throwing it away just means that painting will never be finished.
Which brings me to art. The things people call art today just has me appalled. I'm not a great artist, by any means. I do love art. I work to better myself with every drawing. So why is it that people can sneeze on paper and call it art? Art is emotion on paper. (Or in whatever medium you please.) It's form, flow, composition. The eye is drawn around the canvas from one focus to another. The piece should gain some sort of emotional reaction from the viewer. And... honestly, it should look like something. I understand abstract, but why is it that artists don't have to have talent anymore? Scribbles that look vaguely like people, blotches of color that are no more interesting than my wallpaper. So where are the beautiful portraits, the compelling landscapes, thought provoking concepts put into living color, or startling views into the artists' eyes? They're just not there. The few portraits were amateur to say the least. Perhaps the sort of work that I'd expect to see in high school, but not college. There was one landscape that struck me, and I looked at it for some time, admiring the peace that it brought to mind. The rest bored me and had no more emotion than the pattern on the tiled floor.
I want to see talent and emotion in art again. As Alexander Rahl in Terry Goodkind's "The Law of Nines" stated, "I will never throw paint at a canvas and call it art."
So first, the dating rant. One of his peers approached us and followed us around like a long lost puppy for the rest of the hour and a half we were there. At some point, the conversation turned to dating, and more importantly, dating friends. I'm of a mind that if you're not dating/married to your best friend, it isn't going to work. Why? Because this is a person that you're supposed to be with more than anyone else. A relationship is built on common interest, respect, and trust. Isn't a friendship as well? But with all of these people saying not to date friends, they're throwing all of that out and building relationships on superficial things like appearance, sex, and money. Convenience. It's all convenience. And when a relationship becomes too inconvenient- long distance, money draining, or just too much work to find common ground- or even boring- people ditch it, be it a marriage or a dating relationship. Love isn't just a fluffy, happy feeling, people. That's hormones. Love, real love, is also a choice, because sometimes you aren't going to get along. Sometimes it's not going to be fun. Sometimes you have to choose to trust and respect that other person and work through your problems. Like a work of art, it's just that- work. And when something isn't quite right, you fix it. Throwing it away just means that painting will never be finished.
Which brings me to art. The things people call art today just has me appalled. I'm not a great artist, by any means. I do love art. I work to better myself with every drawing. So why is it that people can sneeze on paper and call it art? Art is emotion on paper. (Or in whatever medium you please.) It's form, flow, composition. The eye is drawn around the canvas from one focus to another. The piece should gain some sort of emotional reaction from the viewer. And... honestly, it should look like something. I understand abstract, but why is it that artists don't have to have talent anymore? Scribbles that look vaguely like people, blotches of color that are no more interesting than my wallpaper. So where are the beautiful portraits, the compelling landscapes, thought provoking concepts put into living color, or startling views into the artists' eyes? They're just not there. The few portraits were amateur to say the least. Perhaps the sort of work that I'd expect to see in high school, but not college. There was one landscape that struck me, and I looked at it for some time, admiring the peace that it brought to mind. The rest bored me and had no more emotion than the pattern on the tiled floor.
I want to see talent and emotion in art again. As Alexander Rahl in Terry Goodkind's "The Law of Nines" stated, "I will never throw paint at a canvas and call it art."