Thinking of attending art school

[Red Commissar]

Hi all,

My life has been pretty uneventful and mired in hardship. My family has often moved from place to place for work and housing. My father was very aggressive, though my mother was nice. We were a catholic family, and as such my parents tended to look down on my activities thinking they were unbecoming of me.

My father preferred that I go to a college so I can get a "real" job. He was in the army and thinks my activities is not something I should follow. He died a few months ago (good riddance), and I'm now thinking of following up on my dream of being an artist. I also have interests in politics, as you can see from my activities.

I wanted to go somewhere far from my family, and a place that had a nice artistic community, so I'm thinking of applying to an art school or something along those lines. Some people say my art is too generic and landscape-based, better suited to postcard type things. I've sent application to a number of places. I really hope they do, I spent most of my savings to get this rolling. What are your thoughts?

Here are some examples of my work. I like old European architecture and landscapes.

http://i56.tinypic.com/smt45c.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/mwv5zl.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/11tnyo7.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/xkq48y.jpg

I have a foundation, hopefully be accepted and I'll learn more.

[ContrarianLemming]

you can eat dozen of trots at those things, maybe you can infiltrate them.

think you need to keep in mind how unstable an art life is, it's inherantly unreliable, regardless of your obvious skill.

[Honggweilo]

you can eat dozen of trots at those things, maybe you can infiltrate them.

think you need to keep in mind how unstable an art life is, it's inherantly unreliable, regardless of your obvious skill.

Depends on what you are doing, autonomous art may be uncertain. But graphical illustrating, mixed with own art projects and teaching can be quite stable i have to say.

My advice to OP, as an art student myself, do it! I mean there arent alot of people being so skilled at romantic realism as you, and you can use your drawing/painting skills to also excel in other kinds of art techniques! I think you wont have any problem being admitted.

[scarletghoul]

Wow your pictures are awesome ! Love the third one.

I'm doing art at college and hoping to go to uni next year. You are more talented than anyone in my class lol. You obviously have ability so could easily find a career.. do it !!

[Il Medico]

Holy Shit those are m-fucking-azing.

[Sasha]

your skills are evident but, and i dont know how art-school is in the US so i'll only speak from my experience here in the netherlands, artschools find it also/more important that you have an open mind, that you are willing to learn. and not only that you are willing to learn but also that you also can unlearn. i have seen people with similair skills who didnt make it because they could not think as an artist but where more skilled laborers.
again this is my experience with dutch art-school but i would advise you t experiment a lot before you aply, go craze and dont be afraid that its not pristine.
show some perfect shit like shit but also some experiments, just to prove your not narow foccused.

oh, and while you do this, keep in the back of your head that you shouldnt take everything they tell you too serious, take out of it the stuff thats usefull, ignore the shit thats pretentious crap.

good luck from an never gradiuated theater student

[Jazzratt]

HAHAHAHAHA. Well played sir, well played.

(For those who haven't caught on those are Hitler's paintings)

[Raúl Duke]

(For those who haven't caught on those are Hitler's paintings)

I knew there was something up, plus that old European landscape stuff isn't what art schools are interested (in teaching you) in.

[Sasha]

HAHAHAHAHA. Well played sir, well played.

(For those who haven't caught on those are Hitler's paintings)


damn, i already thought they where horible cheesy and tried to package that in some constructive critism and the chance i was getting played did cross my mind but indeed
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w320/fishintimber/applause.gif

[Red Commissar]

HAHAHAHAHA. Well played sir, well played.

(For those who haven't caught on those are Hitler's paintings)


I knew there was something up, plus that old European landscape stuff isn't what art schools are interested (in teaching you) in.


damn, i already thought they where horible cheesy and tried to package that in some constructive critism and the chance i was getting played did cross my mind but indeed
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w320/fishintimber/applause.gif

I was horribly bored and posted it, wanted to see how long it could go before someone caught on. Originally I was going to mention I was going to go to art school in Vienna but that would have made it too obvious.

[Jazzratt]

I was horribly bored and posted it, wanted to see how long it could go before someone caught on. Originally I was going to mention I was going to go to art school in Vienna but that would have made it too obvious. It was clever, and I wasn't entirely sure until I did a quick goolge for Hitler's paintings. Well set up and everything though. My favourite responses were these two:


Wow your pictures are awesome ! Love the third one.

I'm doing art at college and hoping to go to uni next year. You are more talented than anyone in my class lol. You obviously have ability so could easily find a career.. do it !!


Holy Shit those are m-fucking-azing.

I think we need to ban these two obvious Nazi sympathisers.

[The Red Next Door]

Yes GO TO ART SCHOOL!!

[La Comédie Noire]

I knew right away, but then i saw everyone else's posts and thought I was insane.

[Os Cangaceiros]

LOL I cannot believe that so many people didn't catch on to the joke.

Hitler did have some skill insofar as art was concerned, although his paintings are really horribly banal and structural, in the final analysis. It's like he's the Nazi version of Bob Ross or something. I think there is indeed some overlap between Nazism and the USSR as far as the endorsement of bland, boring art is concerned.

[Pretty Flaco]

I saw ol' Adolf coming before I even clicked. :D

[Rusty Shackleford]

i think if hitler was admitted to that school it would have saved the world a bit of trouble. obviously some other asshole would have taken his position but still.

i dont know if i should feel bad for thinking those are some decent paintings.

i mean, its obvious that scarletghoul and the doctor are nazi sympathizers and thats what i dont want to seem like. good job rooting them out.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

i think if hitler was admitted to that school it would have saved the world a bit of trouble. obviously some other asshole would have taken his position but still.

i dont know if i should feel bad for thinking those are some decent paintings.

i mean, its obvious that scarletghoul and the doctor are nazi sympathizers and thats what i dont want to seem like. good job rooting them out.
I like the art anyhow. Hittler should have been a painter instead of an asshole in power.

[Red Commissar]

What ever made Hitler really go over the edge and break occurred when he was in Vienna, particularly after he got rejected for the final time from the Vienna academy. Would it have made a difference he was accepted to the Vienna academy? Could he have stayed in painting this kind of stuff, or would he have been willing to change?

[Pavlov's House Party]

I like the art anyhow. Hittler should have been a painter instead of an asshole in power.

some other fascist asshole would have taken his place.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

All my friends that have art majors would tell you not to do it. All my friends who like art and didnt attend art school would tell you not to do it.

It's a bad idea in general.

[Zeus the Moose]

It's like he's the Nazi version of Bob Ross or something.

Congratulations. You've just won this thread.

[Jazzratt]

All my friends that have art majors would tell you not to do it. All my friends who like art and didnt attend art school would tell you not to do it.

It's a bad idea in general. Aye. I heard that basically there are two outcomes to art school. You either begin a glorious epoch that will last a thousand years or you shoot yourself and end up burning in a ditch.

[Honggweilo]

well played indeed :lol: i feel so used.... actually i wasnt familiar with those works, who look really decent, but is just a boring portray of reality as it is. As Psycho already pointed out, there is a difference between a skilled labourer and a artist, too much of one is always bad :p. The first has no creativity, the second is a pretentious douche with no skill who will use "the concept" the justify his garbage :p

anyway, i thought this might be relative

http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2009-12-28/1261987552759.jpg

[Honggweilo]

Aye. I heard that basically there are two outcomes to art school. You either begin a glorious epoch that will last a thousand years or you shoot yourself and end up burning in a ditch.

you people seem to forget that not al artschools are one and the same. Liberal arts tends to be pretentious. There are also trade schools for graphical design, mediadesign, digital design, game design, audiovisual design, ect. They are usually a good mix of practical and creative education, with room for creative projects, but with a sence of reality (and not petit-bourgeois art pretentiousness). You can actually get a job in the sector once you finish :rolleyes:

[Jazzratt]

you people seem to forget that not al artschools are one and the same. Liberal arts tends to be pretentious. There are also trade schools for graphical design, mediadesign, digital design, game design, audiovisual design, ect. They are usually a good mix of practical and creative education, with room for creative projects, but with a sence of reality (and not petit-bourgeois art pretentiousness). You can actually get a job in the sector once you finish :rolleyes: I'm sure you do - I have no problem with art schools or the arts in general. What you quoted was a joke about Hitler, not an attack or joke about art schools.

[promethean]

I saw ol' Adolf coming before I even clicked. :D
I saw him coming before I even logged on.:D:D:D