as someone who in two weeks will have finished her first year of studying english/fine art, i totally friggin agree.
The thing is, I loved studying art; I loved learning the techniques and studying and riffing off famous artists from the past. What I did not love, and what made me realize (among other things) that art-as-a-career was not for me, was the pretentiousness and self-importance of the fine-art world. I realized that I didn't have much in common with ahteeests whose goal as an artist was to discomfit or disgust or sicken their audience under the guise of Making A Statement.
....word, yo. and there's only about a handful of my fellow students who'd agree. the rest are very much for the statement-making-up-themselves-bull *facepalm* each to their own, but still, aaaargh.
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The thing is, I loved studying art; I loved learning the techniques and studying and riffing off famous artists from the past. What I did not love, and what made me realize (among other things) that art-as-a-career was not for me, was the pretentiousness and self-importance of the fine-art world. I realized that I didn't have much in common with ahteeests whose goal as an artist was to discomfit or disgust or sicken their audience under the guise of Making A Statement.
....word, yo.
and there's only about a handful of my fellow students who'd agree. the rest are very much for the statement-making-up-themselves-bull *facepalm* each to their own, but still, aaaargh.