In this new chapter: works I made for Art school, and how all of them included at least one mental breakdown...
So, I told you before I was an art student, right? I'm currently coursing the Fine Arts degree equivalent in Venezuela.
The funny part is, all the dictated content during this course evolves around extremely modern art, unfairly excluding all the "traditional" forms of art.
A sculpture, a drawing or a painting are hardly well received as a final project, just because for them they are "too traditional" and "art has evolved". So now you can imagine how uncomfortable it is for me this situation being a painter myself.
The good part of this (YES, a really good one) is that there's something like an implicit law in the artistic world:
"If you don't get out of your comfort zone you will not grow."
And that's basically what this post is about. I will show you guys some of the artworks I've made (nearly against my will) to please mercyless modern-art teachers.
Here's the first one!
I was asked to make a practice about collage. So I got my best willingness to make something awesome, I sat by my desk and... nothing
In my defense, making a collage is even more difficult than it seems, okay?
After two cups of guava juice and wiping some teardrops from my desk, I got an idea. AND VOILÁ.
I ripped pages from old magazines, cut rectangles out of a yellow piece of paper and drew a few cute paper planes. All put together got me a hardly decent score, BUT I liked the result and that's the important thing :)
I think it well fits my personality. Before knowing the final score my teacher had given to it, a few classmates congratulated my effort saying that they really liked it. That was all that mattered to me.
You are so strong for enduring those mental breakdowns, in the end grade doesn't matter in a career that has so much subjectivity. The most important thing is your peers liked it and that a great piece came out 💖
Thank you so much, I love you :c And thank you for also being there for me in the middle of my crisis to make these essential reminders :c
THE RIGHT WORD WAS “GRADE” NOT SCORE IM GONNA KILL MYSELF HAHAHA
The artwork looks really cool, i like the paper bag on the head and the explosion behind. As you rightly said " you cannot grow if you stay in your comfort zone" collage helped grow a little:) And if you are in for another try with the collage i have a contest going, think about taking part,lol
I can’t believe you liked it! You’re like the God of collage to me!!! Hahaha this reply gave me some courage so YES, I would like to participate in your contest :D where can I sign in?
Thank you so much for your kind words <3
You honour me with your words, thank you so much:)
Here is the contest https://steemit.com/hive-174904/@georgeboya/collage-contest-2-win-120-steem-and-1200-ccc-in-prizes
Take your time, i will extend the end date for one more week to give more people the chance to take part:) I hope you wil find time:):)
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Interesting work! I'd say very artistic too 😉👌
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This is very cool. Great work on this collage!
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I really like this work. You took the idea and really ran with it.
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