What gets my goat, is when people come to me and say "Oh I am an artist too." Whoopee doo, you want an award? Or they tell me one of there more outcast relatives are artist...wow...and artist huh? So they still color in the lines of a Mickey Mouse Coloring book? That's the equivalent of me walking into a fire station and bragging about how I roasted marshmallows over a fire. Here is how stupid you look.
A timeless Classic Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam", Sistine chapel Rome. If you think Michelangelo wasn't this good until he was old and useless, think again. Artist during the high renaissance area had to go through strict and laborious training and apprenticeship at a young age. He had to live in the home of a master for the first parts of his life doing all kinds of stupid shit. Cleaning waste pots, mixing paints, preparing canvases, doing studies, preparing meals. he didn't become an "artist" overnight. It took years of intense training and discipline, if he herd you compare your sixteen year old cousin to an "artist" he would literally beat your face into a bloody pulp. I bet you didn't know that Michelangelo was a certified badass in his day? He didn't like spoilers and he even fought against the pope who was the absolute authority in his time. He demonstrated his vast knowledge of anatomy, movement, color, environment, and drapery in this one piece. He is a master who will most likely outlive all others.
Some Unknown abomination, created by some guys cousin. If you have to literally spell out the object in your piece to the audience, you have failed. No anatomy skills have been applied, the color is straight out of a doctor Seuss nightmare. The general shape is alien to this planet and any of its living known species. I could toss bitter insults to tell you what it does resemble... but I think you get the general point.
My end point is, that just because art can be conceptual; it is by no means subjective. If its shit, then its shit. You can't make excuses, because there are none to be had. If you think that anyone can be an artist simply by being subjective and trying to excuse everything around you, then you don't know anything. I cant pretend to be a police officer just because I slap a badge on and walk around a police station. I can't make judgments based on a TV show I watched and think to myself, "Hey...being a doctor is easy...Ill start work tomorrow and it'll be great". Wrong...people will die and I will be arrested. People study and work hard to achieve to be the best in the field, artist included. Sadly, most people get the impression that illustrators and fine art painters just sit about all day sipping coffee in the morning and wine in the evening. If your not working hard, then your not doing anything, and you can claim to be an artist all you want, but you are only fooling yourself. Art is not subjective, it means something to people. Drawing a picture of a nude cat woman means nothing to nobody. Even as porn, it can only work as an anatomy piece. A body of work has to do something for someone, even if its to sell toys in a store. Even if its just the artist method and style used, people will be drawn to it for whatever messages they get from it.
So stop pretending like everything is subjective, and it doesn't matter if you do stick figures and call yourself and artist....because you are not. Art is never truly easy, that's why a lot of people seem to get away with it. Most people don't understand how hard it is exactly. You are expected to solve visual problems for people, and make sense of client request. You are expected to be on call anytime of the day, and you are expected to sacrifice your holidays and weekends. its not as easy as standing on a balcony all day, after having multiple orgies and sipping on glasses of cheap wine and brooding about how unfair life is.
now shut up and have a nice day.
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