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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
"I don't think the book on painting has been closed, it has only not been taken out of the library much in the last 80 years."
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The book has not been taken out here in Cleveland that I can see. I am currently taking an oil painting class. We are in the fifth week of a sixteen week semester and just last Wednesday the professor (who has been teaching for 14 years, graduated with a degree/masters in art about 20 years ago) lectured and showed slides of abstract art. Would love to quote her exact words, but what she did say was that the class is now done with realism, we needed to start with realism but will spend the rest of the semester (11 more weeks) on learning to express ourselves with oils and color. To quote the remark she makes over and over, "you don't need to know how to draw to be a successful artist. It might help you once in a while, but it is not necessary".
This is the very reason I have no interest in getting a degree. I take classes to further my skills...I'm getting more discouraged by the week with this art instructor. It is a slumping, disappointing experience to run into this time and time again when what I want is to learn realism. She brought in two of her paintings she will be exhibiting. Very disappointing, and not suprised to see that this working artists does not know how to draw and it is pathetically represented in her landscape paintings.
Students like myself depend heavily on this forum for our education. I am very grateful for this community and don't know where I'd be without it.