Here is what i know: art school.
because for the past two years i have lived through it.
so ridiculous. awfully ridiculous. full of ridiculous art kids.
i guess i would have to be placed in that same category…  but lets not talk about that.
art school has made me feel less artistic  and more of an asshole.
they teach us to appreciate high art.  I’ve had many an art history class which focuses on the difference between art as understood by people in the know as opposed to the masses.
down with the masses. all they want is kitsch. They appreciate an accurately drawn face when it has no meaning behind it. but dont understand the likes of flavin and stella. they see andy warhol as just a pop icon.
[see what i mean about being an asshole?] art is so much more interesting when conceptual.
i dont want to be an elitist. and somehow i am being pushed in that direction. NO.
thanks to art school for that.

about the people - art kids are expected to be hipsters. but i think theres a definate line between the two. at least in my experience.
although..
being an artist seems like the new hip thing to do. everyone thinks they are an artists — but its different than outsider art. hipsters just talk alot about being artists and don’t act upon it. kids in art school do nothing but act upon it. to extremes. annoyingly so. like theres nothing else in the world.
go away.
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a bit of my personal experience:
i was in video art. i made videos that i thought were really exciting. like this:

but i was told that it was too happy and therefore rendered meaningless.

this received the comment “you need to be more narcissistic”.great.

art school = mass ridiculousness.
one girl told me my videos didnt look like what she imagined art to look like. this was probably the best compliment i received, even though she didnt mean it that way.
I dont want to be a carbon copy of every other artist.
so finally after about 10ish videos i got fed up. and made a video of how annoyed i was with the video art program. which you can see here, if you like:

and everyone loved that one.
how ironic.
how art school.

im in graphic design now. which i was always more interested in anyway. and which is all about the masses. no elitism here. just spreading info through great visuals. [ http://highpeoplemagic.com/jennyfrank ]

-jFrank