Hi. I went to art school. My drawing classes were eight hours long my freshman year. Every Monday and Wednesday. Could I have taken the same time to learn from drawing from photographs and "how to draw" books? I guess. Sure. I wouldn't be where I am now, but probably. The thing about art school is it's not about learning "how to draw" -- It's about honing your craft and getting better at it. That's why they don't pick those "omg amazing teen artist that got DENIED from art school draws like a photograph" buzzfeed writes about. What's for them to improve on?
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Nihilina Gloomee
I sometimes question why art schools still exist
09 Jan 2024, 09:44 PM
It’s not like people can learn how to draw stuff from YouTube tutorials or “how to draw” tutorial books and so on, and not trying to make everybody happy, I believe people who go to art schools will never realize this at all.
I just rather go to an art class or learn how to draw something in my art style from photos and stuff, art schools are useless junk imho, and turns people into snobby irritating hooligans. (Looking at you TCC)
I rather look at outsider art, Trangressive Art, Folk Art, and cool art I like to see online and on same dot energy, not pretentious nonsense like the taped Banana. In all fairness, I wouldn’t enjoy a lot of post-modern art either tbh, only overly online Leftists like that crap probably…
Comments (8)
Posted: Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 @ 01:28 AM
@uu-hime: Ok you got me on this one, ehhh. Yeah, I'm not sure tbh. (I guess I just have gripes with some art students being downright unlikable a frick, but that's not really fair since you went to art school yourself. Hmm. (I also hate Buzzfeed with every fiber of my being tbh.)
Posted: Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 @ 09:49 PM
@N0-11: According to Wiki, it was the victim of downsizing and a shift in focus to the Huffington Post, which BuzzFeed proper apparently acquired in 2020 (and also downsized). :x
Of course I never studied art "professionally" so I can't comment even casually on how art schools actually operate day-to-day, but institutions exist, primarily, to provide standardized accreditation. Whether that's necessarily desirable is the question you're touching on: there's a perennial tug-of-war within academia between one camp espousing "knowledge for its own sake" and the neoliberal attitude that universities are diploma mills to train office drones (I witnessed this first-hand between two of my professors one year).
And that speaks to whether an academy (artistic or otherwise) gears itself toward cultivating creativity and discovery, or is basically a guild protecting its own: not to Godwin's Law an alt-hist tangent, but the Vienna academy rejected Hitler not because he wasn't technically competent, but because his was a draftsman's portfolio with significant deficiency in depicting human subjects with emotional connection. Had he been admitted he might have very well been able to develop the passionate eye, but that assumes the faculty was willing to mentor from the ground up—a cynical reading of why higher-end schools require pre-existing portfolios is because they're more interested in what you can do for them than the reverse.
Ironic since this post first clued me into how the Modern Art Market is basically the ur-NFTs years before Adam Ruined Everything, so it would seem more befitting the ancaps. :P