Monday, March 3, 2008

Art in school.

After several weeks of the new semester I am starting to get annoyed by my studio classes. It isn't because I have to produce work but because of the amount of time were given to produce it. I am a firm believer in not rushing an artist. I think that if an artist has a contract he has a schedule he has to keep but typically if you set up a schedule you would allow yourself enough time to produce quality. Often times I feel rushed to produce a piece and therefore the piece lacks quality. Yes I understand that because school is short we have to rush assignments but its kinda like whats the point of the project if we are unable to fully explore it. The other thing to take into account is problems that arise during the creative process. This week alone I had to re shot one assignment and restart another because my original ideas didn't work out halfway through the process. This is probably the complaint of every art student out there but I still feel the need to gripe about it because we are being graded for quality yet we are not given conditions that we can produce quality work in. In some cases I get more discouraged by studying art then I do if I'm free t o make it. I guess this might be to weed out the week but I always saw the point of school to encourage you to do something, not to discourage you.

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