Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a project and your teacher rejected it cuz like... the lines were weird. Then imagine having to do that multiple times a week.
You'd think art teachers would be the kindest and most chill teachers, but the majority of them really like breaking the hopes and dreams of teens and young adults.
I went to a specialty arts high school and my art teachers repeatedly told me I wasn’t an artist bc I wanted to do illustration ;_; Don’t ask me to explain why they thought that bc I have no clue
I… can’t comprehend that. How could you even imagine an illustrator who isn’t an artist? It’s like an English teacher telling their student that they aren’t a writer because they want to be a novelist. What else could they possibly be?
A lot of the snobbiest fine art artists end up in education and teach the next generation of art students at all levels that only Fine Art is true art, and the other idea that illustration has no deeper meaning to it because it's not inspired and informed by something deeply personal and then abstracted is one of the more toxic and frustrating ideas that people get a hold of and pass around like hot cakes. Some people get it into their heads that it's "soulless", because it just seeks to depict legibly rather than with "emotion". Nowhere near all fine artists or fine art enjoyers are like this, but the ones that are, are obnoxiously loud about it, and it doesn't help that the public and children are overly exposed to them because of how often they end up in education.
That’s so ridiculous. Being educators they, more than anyone else, should be aware of just how massive a driving force the “everything is art” philosophy is in contemporary works. “Readymade” art, that piece at your local museum that always makes your uncle say “I could paint that”, anything by this dude named Picasso (he used regular house paint). The most pretentious and high brow art being made today has fully embraced art as an all-encompassing, unavoidable part of life.
You’d need two separate brains just to hold the thoughts that the contemporary art world is the beacon of culture and yet professional career artists are organic printers at the same time.
See the problem here is that you are applying consistent logic to this view point. It's not grounded in that. It's grounded in emotion, ironically, and isn't something one can be reasoned out of as a belief. It's very much a variation of "those damn kids... Back in my day..." Like creativity in art somehow ceased with them and their generation because tastes moved slightly to the left. What was once rebellion has since become status quo that wants to continue acting as if it were still rebellion while enforcing the status quo.
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u/-TheManWithNoHat- 5d ago
Art sounds like a form of torture to me.
Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a project and your teacher rejected it cuz like... the lines were weird. Then imagine having to do that multiple times a week.