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Love the Artist, not the Art!
13 years ago
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wolf-nymph because she said I could...
The average person has very little respect for artists. I’m not saying they don’t respect art, because they love art. Even if they don’t understand the art itself, people understand the cultural and personal need for Art. But outside of the entertainment and advertising industries you find very few people who see a need for artists. I’m not sure how many conversations I have had where people ask me what I went to school for then laughed at me because I have a major in art and a minor in art history.
“Wanted an easy A, huh?”
“Didn’t want to take real classes?”
“How do you like being poor?”
These people hardly ever realize that they’ve just insulted me. The same people that claim “I wish I could draw/paint like that” look down on the person that did the piece. Apparently art is supposed to be a talent that you either have or don’t have from birth, and anyone who claims to have put effort into getting the skills to do art are just scamming.
Art is a lot of work. It doesn’t matter if you’re creating it for someone else or yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s studio or performance. A singer might be born with a lovely voice, but it still takes hours of practice to train that voice to be able to perform. Visual artists have to train themselves to see the world before they can start drawing it. Artists can’t just translate the world into “tree” and reproduce it. We look at the contour of the trunk, the texture of the bark, the shape of the leaves, and the way light interacts with all of those things. Then we can reproduce that tree, or a fictitious tree that looks realistic. There’s a reason that prior to photography scientists were often very skilled artists. Their studies forced them to analyze the world and their pen was the only way to bring those studies to other people. Darwin’s sketchbooks are beautiful.
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TOS verbage shamelessly stolen from
wolf-nymph because she said I could...The average person has very little respect for artists. I’m not saying they don’t respect art, because they love art. Even if they don’t understand the art itself, people understand the cultural and personal need for Art. But outside of the entertainment and advertising industries you find very few people who see a need for artists. I’m not sure how many conversations I have had where people ask me what I went to school for then laughed at me because I have a major in art and a minor in art history.
“Wanted an easy A, huh?”
“Didn’t want to take real classes?”
“How do you like being poor?”
These people hardly ever realize that they’ve just insulted me. The same people that claim “I wish I could draw/paint like that” look down on the person that did the piece. Apparently art is supposed to be a talent that you either have or don’t have from birth, and anyone who claims to have put effort into getting the skills to do art are just scamming.
Art is a lot of work. It doesn’t matter if you’re creating it for someone else or yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s studio or performance. A singer might be born with a lovely voice, but it still takes hours of practice to train that voice to be able to perform. Visual artists have to train themselves to see the world before they can start drawing it. Artists can’t just translate the world into “tree” and reproduce it. We look at the contour of the trunk, the texture of the bark, the shape of the leaves, and the way light interacts with all of those things. Then we can reproduce that tree, or a fictitious tree that looks realistic. There’s a reason that prior to photography scientists were often very skilled artists. Their studies forced them to analyze the world and their pen was the only way to bring those studies to other people. Darwin’s sketchbooks are beautiful.
Prints available on StoreEnvy
http://nezumi.storenvy.com/
I hate that people always ask me to draw them free shit too as if art isn't a legitimate form of income because it's "fun"- pffffffffffttttt.
More often then not I'm looked at as a moocher of my husband and that I just dont want a "real" job. Drives me insane and really it just helps me pick my real friends..
I realize how much effort goes into doing artwork, even though the artist may make it look like it is so easy. That is one reason I try to support an artist, or two, at the "Artist Alley" at various cons. It is to give them a boost and let them know that people do care.
My brother graduated from the Art Institute of Philadelphia, so I know how much time, effort, sweat and tears that went into his classes.
I'd probably lump gamers and roleplayers in with entertainment peeps
It's a sad tale for the artists, being under-appreciated. After all the artists are the ones who created the art, not the art themselves.
Honestly, that's been what's stopping me from pursuing my college degree.
Also... engineering degrees cover demolitions?!
Wow.. our country's degrees suck LOL