Sadly, I did not possess this level of self-confidence as a teenager. Though it teeters on arrogance, so perhaps that's okay after all. I'm glad that it was believable as a kid in an art class, though!
This is something that actually does happen in art classes, and a lot of teachers completely fail to define the difference between producing work to a commission (when you absolutely have to meet the brief) and producing work as an organic evolution of a prompt/theme/starting point. As a student it can be unbearably frustrating - I've definitely been there, with a teacher who just said "you can't do that" and I said "why?" and the teacher says, "because I say so".
I would say, though, that 99.9% of students are not so arrogant as to say I was a true genius, even if this teacher refused to see it - and I find it frustrating that these words often get put into their mouths - people who deem themselves "geniuses" tend to refuse to self-improve, and most creative people question things and disagree vocally with things in a quest to improve themselves and their practice. Sometimes this means disagreeing with a teacher (or, indeed, a peer), and that's OK. That putting-of-words-into-mouths is kind of frustrating, because it perpetuates the
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I'm sure it does happen a lot, and I'm lucky that it didn't happen to me. I did go into caricature to a certain extent here, so thanks for highlighting that important middle ground.
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Oops. It's fiction? My bad :P
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I would say, though, that 99.9% of students are not so arrogant as to say I was a true genius, even if this teacher refused to see it - and I find it frustrating that these words often get put into their mouths - people who deem themselves "geniuses" tend to refuse to self-improve, and most creative people question things and disagree vocally with things in a quest to improve themselves and their practice. Sometimes this means disagreeing with a teacher (or, indeed, a peer), and that's OK. That putting-of-words-into-mouths is kind of frustrating, because it perpetuates the ( ... )
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