Browsing through pieces of art from some of my favorite artists while I take a break from studying and I ran into this piece with a quote from Basquiat. To say he hit the nail on the head is an understatement. But I CAN say he took the words right out of my mouth. Studying Art is an opportunity I am beyond grateful for but sometimes while I am in class it's a struggle for me. And this piece completely captures the reason why. When you study art, they teach you the technical side, the proportion, scale, space, contour line, 2D, 3D, etc. All of these things are beneficial to learn and can expand your skills with practice, but at the end of the day I just DO art. I don't think of the things I learned because it's not how I learned to do art in the first place. I just picked up a pencil and drew what I saw and practiced. When I do art, I don't think about the technical side, I think of life and before I know it I have a piece of art. I have theories, I have ideas and have my own opinion on what objects and people and everything in between mean to ME and what they represent to ME. I don't believe there's a a way to learn art. Everyone has their own style, if they want to learn they need to practice. No one can tell you your art is good or bad because it's yours. When I get my pieces graded in class, I'm not graded on what my art is, I'm graded on the technical side of it. Again, learning the technical side to art is something I am grateful for and may enhance my skills, but at the end of the day it's not how I make art. Life is how I make art.
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