In my visual arts lecture right now... We're supposed to be finding 'mentor artists' on Museum of Contemporary Arts websites and quoting them, or something...

Words cannot express how much I wish this was not part of the class. > > I just want to do the artwork based on, whatever the subject for the semester is. I don't want to have to look up some artist who I don't really know or care about and then make up some bullshit about how their work inspired / influenced mine when it really didn't... > >

And concept based artwork pisses me off. I understand if there are professional artists out there who want to make confronting artworks about whatever issue. But I'm just not interested. I just want to make art that looks pretty for fun. I don't want it to have some deep underlying meaning. D: And for classes you're always stuck trying to force some concept into it. And once again making up bullshit for your artist statement about how your pretty picture isn't just pretty, but it actually has some secret deep meaning.

Ugh. What a load of crap.

I wish this class was like my class last semester where we got to draw every week, and the lecturer taught us about different drawing techniques and how to improve our work.

At least I actually learnt something then.