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The saga continues!
Just a couple, (well, a few) points:
1) Not all contemporary art schools are a waste of time. I've learnt a great deal at the one I am currently attending. (I acknowledge that others may have a different experience, but that's about the relative quality of schools, not about contemporary art education in general.)
2) My teachers and fellow students still value drawing. We still have life drawing classes. We still learn about anatomy. We still learn about the craft of painting...and so on. We look at Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velasquez and the rest. We also look at Pollock, Picasso, Rothko, Hockney, and anyone else who is exhibiting or has work accessible to us. We try, I hope, to look at all of these with initial respect. We may ultimately rank their work personally in terms of quality, but we begin with the assumption that they are genuine and not frauds.
3) EVERYONE on this forum or anywhere else is free to dislike, or even disrespect, any artist. That's just a human prerogative.
4) Recently I was encouraged to SPEND AN HOUR looking closely at a work I hadn't really considered particularly good. I was surprised how much I found in it. It was a humbling experience. Perhaps part of the trouble is that as inheritors of the TV and computer revolution we have lost, to an extent, the ability to contemplate.
Peter G
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