Reading some of the posts in this thread reminds me why I stopped pursuing art school. All of the snobbery and doucheyness by people who aren't artists really sucks the soul out of it. At least it did for me.

I took Art Theory in college. Let's just say it wasn't the easiest course in the world.

I love (visual) art, though. It paints a perspective of history in ways I never thought before I started learning about it in depth.

Re New Yorkers:

It's so uncanny though, my half sister who is 14 years younger than me is currently a student at the university I was supposed to go to. She is basically living my other life...we've never met and she didn't know anything about me until 6 or 7 years ago (when I contacted her through FB).

What's even MORE uncanny is that she and I did the exact same senior art project. She posted a pic of what she was working on at the time, and it was almost exactly the same (one piece was 100% the same, theme wise) as what I had done in my same year.

Are writers artists?

Many prefer not to be categorized as such.

I do.

Just because I feel there's a common struggle artists deal with.

It's probably the only classification I'm comfortable associating with.

Heh, the struggle. I guess that's what I gave up on, really. I don't identify with being an artist in that sense at all. My spark for creativity still lives within me, it just manifests itself in a totally different way.

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Originally posted by OrangestO Are writers artists?

Some of them more than others.

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Btw, there is a really interesting documentary on Netflix called 'Tim' s Vermeer'. In it the guy recreates a Vermeer using techniques he figured Vermeer did in order to create such photorealistic paintings ahead of his time. I don't know that the doc is about art as much as it is about human potential and what's possible if you have money and resources at your fingertips, but very interesting nonetheless.

private tour of the met? you think you're special lols

lmao, my boy is building the new whitney (turner constr/renzo piano) stop acting like you someone special bro

we know you suck, 'art tour' you paid for that huh (or atleast someone in your 'group'), classic let me guess you paid for a graffiti tour through bushwick also so you can claim you're street now and get all huffy puffy and want to talk art on the internet

how did i miss the point of anonymous banksy stand? explain to me i really want to hear your expert opinion, private tour met guy

because i 'tie my argument' to hirst and you're assimilating my opinion to value? then you go on saying I'm giving a lecture about something I don't know about? re-read my first 2 posts, explain to me where I said I'm giving a lecture

classic fuckboy status here, come on bro let's 'get into it' over art i hope you get red in the face when you type the next response.

i own and have been around more art then you will ever see in your life

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Some of them more than others.

Definitely.

The writer market is saturated with "copyists."

Since I currently work in content marketing, I interact and engage with a lot of these copyists who are out there faking the funk as writers.

Hurts my soul.

I have an art degree, listen to me.

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Dude, it's all about the je ne sais quoi.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson My spark for creativity still lives within me, it just manifests itself in a totally different way.

Nice.

My former English professor said something alone the lines of, "when you create art, you kill life." Pretty much as succinct as you can get.

Last edited by AlphaStarred on Nov-21-2014 at 15:50