It's quite funny because I am actually rather pretentious in what I think is quality and what is shit. I think I just realised more than anyone else in my school that art is completely subjective - you can hammer on all you'd like about composition, colour, texture and any number of things that make up the technical aspect of a piece, but at the end of the day, because of those reasons, or in spite of them, you're ultimately going to love or hate it based on what you consider aesthetically pleasing. Pretending your work serves some greater agenda doesn't necessarily enhance its meaning. I think I differed in that I was honest in my work - I liked this picture of a thing, so I wanted to draw the thing.
Of course, when a grade was riding on it, I could bullshit a meaning with the best of them =).
I don't think I've explained myself as clearly as I would've liked. It's a really fine line.
I always just think back to when I was in art school during the election of 2004, and my best friend there was like, 'I want to paint on the side of the building [something about the election]', and he said it in such a way that he thought his idea was so progressive and avant garde, and I just turned and shot him down completely on how his idea was recycled and had been done for ever. Like, I was never pretentious in the sense to think my ideas for pieces were avant garde while that seemed to be what everyone in my school thrived on. It's why I failed my portfolio review. My work was technically above scale in comparison to most people in my class, but I didn't have the passion they were looking for - I was, and am, a bit too practical. IDK - I know how I would like things to be, but I'm also terribly realistic in how that change might be affected or not, and the kids with whom I went to school didn't tend to share that.
Of course, when a grade was riding on it, I could bullshit a meaning with the best of them =).
I don't think I've explained myself as clearly as I would've liked. It's a really fine line.
I always just think back to when I was in art school during the election of 2004, and my best friend there was like, 'I want to paint on the side of the building [something about the election]', and he said it in such a way that he thought his idea was so progressive and avant garde, and I just turned and shot him down completely on how his idea was recycled and had been done for ever. Like, I was never pretentious in the sense to think my ideas for pieces were avant garde while that seemed to be what everyone in my school thrived on. It's why I failed my portfolio review. My work was technically above scale in comparison to most people in my class, but I didn't have the passion they were looking for - I was, and am, a bit too practical. IDK - I know how I would like things to be, but I'm also terribly realistic in how that change might be affected or not, and the kids with whom I went to school didn't tend to share that.
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