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Sun, 23 March 2008 12:03

marc

Needs to get a life!

Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729

Holy crap!!!!!!!!

I took a semister without any math and wanted to do something fun... so I took an intro to art course...

I have never been a class that had so little instruction, direction, discussion... than this one...

We look at one or two slides of an artists work... and then have to do a project emulating their style...

The other day I asked the professor, "Just when are we going to do something in our own style?"

All i got as a way of response was a sappy smile...

Are all art courses like this?

Damn... I hope not...

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Sun, 23 March 2008 14:13

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Ah yes. Art. Well, the answer is "probably" or "maybe not" or some other arty farty answer that means nothing.

An art course is not about your art.

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Sun, 23 March 2008 20:19

E.J.

Really getting into it

Location: U.S.
Registered: August 2003
Messages: 565

do you get to do any drawings of live models. I remember that being fun....except when the models were 80 year old women...lots of texture:-X

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Mon, 24 March 2008 04:38

Jim Pettit

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Location: United States
Registered: June 2005
Messages: 121

If you want to create art in your own style, take classes in drawing, watercolor or oil/acrylic painting. They will teach you how to use the tools and you express yourself in any style you care to try. I have been an artist/designer and art teacher for 60 years. I still teach art at the senior center close by.

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Tue, 25 March 2008 01:11

Scott

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Registered: September 2007
Messages: 141

My Art Major daughter had an Esthetics course one semester. When we asked her what she learned, she told us deadpan, "it puts the B.S. in Art Education".

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