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| Artistic Differences |
| 03.10.05 (10:24 pm) [edit] |
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This weather is really nice. It just needs to not get any warmer. It's warm enough in here as it is. I will be miserable come late April. My suspicions intentionally have yet to be confirmed on this, however, I can already tell my painting teacher is going to smite my painting mightily. I knew that a palm tree in connection with a Pacific Island tiki idol would to him be "too obivious." In class I showed him the tikis. Today I only showed him the left half of the picture and pretended that I hadn't already worked out what would be on the right side. He was already saying that a tiki is "too iconographic" so I should do something to it to make it less recognizable, or that the other side should be jarringly different or something. Just based on the fact that 1/2 a tiki is too iconographic. In conjunction with a tree native to where they are from, hell, why don't i just hit people at the base of their necks with my canvas? It's almost as if he cares more about creating abstract images shrouded in mystery and abstraction than learning to paint well. Some of us have never painted in oils before this class. He didn't give a demonstration. Anyone can abstract something; try to paint a photo, when you can't do it well, say you abstracted it. He negatively critiqued an artist that he liked today for being possibly too "decorative." Which I guess translates to don't paint anything anyone would ever want to hang on their walls. Which translates to "I'm setting you up to be a starving artist and because you have been trained to paint things you could possibly sell. Except to the crowds at the Punished Psyche Gallery in some pretentious part of a city." I don't see the point of making a painting that you want it to be something yet you do something to make it nothing. Mmmmnnnn... Again, i hear my dad's voice asking, "So, why can't you just do what the teacher asks?" In other news: Tomorrow maybe I won't get totally shredded in my art class (which has started to make me increasingly nervous, intrepid, and uncomfortable. My 100W class is embarassingly easy. I've gotten full credit on all but one paper on the first time. Getting full credit on a paper means you get a Tootsie Pop. I have accumulated many many lollypops. We haze the new people in my fratority tomorrow. I opted not to pick up a little sib. I go to PBS again on Saturday night. Current Mood:  miffed
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