If Jackson Pollock were alive today which graduate program do you think he'd be chairman of? Yale? Columbia? Cal Arts?
Of course not.
Can you imagine?
Do you even think he'd want to share what he did?!
-Arts education is an Oxymoron, with emphasis on the moronic.
The perversity of thinking you could teach painting, or worse yet make it an academic subject and grade it is an obscenity.
The establishment of the BFA degree, during I think the nineteen fifty's in this country, was to turn the most painfully individualistic creative discipline into a predictable and quantifiable endeavour.
How can you expose yourself,which is what the creative process requires, when your thinking constantly of the receiving end of the process? Your academic peers.
-Why are there so many art students today? Is it the "look"? The fashionableness of the art schools; The underlying "sexy" business of it all?
The cycle is attractive.
Four years of self. Four years of "profound decoration"?Then.Grad-School
Followed by...
Get a show.
Any show.
As long as it's viable, fashionable
Get a good position somewhere.
A school people in the know will respect. Be identified by where you teach or study.
-Or. How bout this ridiculousness.
Remember the Eighties? All those raw "Graffiti Artists". The sheer illegal anarchy of it.
Now the art schools have absorbed the purity of this true cultural expression and Incorporated it into the mainstream curriculum.
Much like Picasso and his gang "discovering" the "primitive". Yes?
Now you have countless undergrads acting as if they came "up from the streets".
How do you critique that? Much less grade it.
What a farce.
-Do you really need a degree to paint?
Go to the Met.
Paint houses.
The only way to paint is to not "paint". No one knows what that looks like.
Until they do.
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