| i'm in graphics right now...its our 3rd or 4th class of doing nothing. im kinda pissed off. i got a B. but i have learned a few years ago that taking art-related courses or ones that require ones own creativity are totally demolishing the very concept of expression and beauty. creating, designing, and composing art of any kind is something that is beyond reasoning; there really are no rights or wrongs. ones own creativity is unique to that one individual and noone can judge it but the artist. but since we are in school, that authentic creativity and originality is destroyed into the numbers, percentages, and marks that betrays the very reason why we resort to art in the first place. there is no answer key at the back of sketchbooks, there is no label on the instruments, papers, stages, shoes, paintbrushes, clay, or any objects on the precise, textbook way of how to use them. we can play, act, write, draw, stroke, mold, construct, or deconstruct anything we want. and as long as the artist is content on what he/she has produced, there should be no external elements or opinions that can validate it otherwise. students who strive for A's and a hundred percents in the arts shouldn't get too carried away with pleasing the evaluator who gives them out. the person who is evaluating your work-of-freakin-precious art is reducing it to mere numbers that are, devastatingly, the only things that count in the end. creativity isnt something that can be stretched out into a rope and who ever has the longest one is the most successful. art cannot be measured. teachers ambiguously convert originality, beauty, and artistry into digits because that's the only system they know how to use to (de)grade us. and who are we calling 'teachers' here? everyone knows that you cannot 'teach' someone to have their own artistic style or personality. art cannot be taught. we should not conform to the expectations and criteria of so-called 'teachers', when all they're teaching is the exact opposite of what art is. they're teaching us that there is a right and a wrong; a good and a bad; a low mark and a high mark. from my understanding, art is a freedom of expression of one's soul; a spiritual pouring of a world with no limitations. since when did we use evaluation sheets to measure souls, and in this case, the portrayal of them? if we are academically promoting art, why are we smashing the foundations and betraying the promises that art is supposed to offer? does art deceive us? does it give us a sense of acceptance and liberty to display our artistic talents and abilities, then confess that it is only a couple of absurd figures, percentages, and letter grades that define our excellence? in slamming the doors to true freedom of expression that art essentially is, school is teaching students to abandon their own raw, gifted talents to satisfy the standards and expectations of their 'experts'.
in other words, school is gonna fuck over our creativity and passion for expression in art. don't become a dense, whipped, unoriginal, second-hand slut.
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