School Destroyed Art’s Beauty 

I’m so sorry this seems like a really cool video you just look to much like my dad for me to continue.

School is a setting to make compliant workers. Art is something in nature that goes against this, as it needs to question the current rules we deal with. Art is something that expresses the inner self, School itself forces you to stay in line and never take risks. Everything in Art is a risk.

I hate how art classes go against creativity. It always seems like you have to follow a set of instructions instead of doing what you want and expressing yourself.

Really like how you didn't just default to "school system broken" but rather acknowledged that learning is collaborative and that your head personally just wasn't in it.

As an art kid, I always wondered why everyone else hated art, even though I myself didn’t enjoy art class, I liked art. I’m in year 9, so around the same time you had your last art class, and I switched out my art elective for music instead recently. Maybe i’m no better. I feel like one of the most important elements of art is being neglected when it comes to teaching art, creativity. If you’re being told to do something, nobody wants to do that. Duh. But I guess that’s sort of how most classes work, you can’t just give the class essentially fifty minutes of free time, I guarantee you most of the people in that room won’t be drawing freely. You can’t really teach creativity anyway, maybe it’s about how you outlet it.

This almost makes me think of the times my art teachers in school would make us draw in specific looking art styles or try to recreate specific art pieces and would criticize the work we did. Sure, there'd be people who genuinely didn't care and put no effort into it, but there'd also be times when they'd ask us to draw a person or something and complain/make us redo it because the art style wasn't realistic enough and looked too much like a cartoon.

you've made art. This is art. Welcome to the land of hungry hungry hippos.

man i love this video. my dream job is to be an art teacher SPECIFICALLY in high school because from the art classes i’ve taken in school, i notice people like you and wish the whole course could just be about learning the actual stories and FUN behind art, rather than freaking memorization. thanks

As an art student who eventually wants to teach art. This was the video I needed to see. I want to make sure that my art classes aren’t formulaic and emphasize the importance of creativity and human expression above all else. Such a great video.

I’m glad I went to a school where art was not at the bottom of the totem pole. It definitely wasn’t the top, but the liberal arts such as music, literature, and visual art, was seen as important as the social sciences and language classes. It also helped that the art teachers were inspiring full time artists… and our high school had an art ‘prodigy’ who was taking high school art courses when she was just 11 years old. Her traditional art was so lifelike it was hard to believe it was made by an 11 year old girl.

in art class we were task to interpret paintings a lot "what did the artist want to express" and it was a game of "say what the teacher wants you to say"

"creativity? shut up nerd" that is so true

People forget that we did not invent math, we DISCOVERED it. Math is just a tool to better understand concepts and rules that already exist.

math has beauty on a rather advanced level. once you look at complex numbers and derivatives and how e and pi neatly fit together, you can see it.

As a college student, I took a couple of courses that revolved around art and design. 😵‍💫Somehow the moment you hit college it’s all about conceptual art. I hate it. Somehow they expect you to look at a goodwill chair and want you to write a whole essay on what the chair means and why the artist went for this route. (Or the classic candy pile which is great but it’s always the first conceptual art concept that gets taught and then they just throw ya a chair) I’m so sick and tired of this, I’m burned out from shitting ideas out of my ass that are “supposed to make sense” but not make sense until you write an essay on it first. Fuckin no thanks. It’s boring

Not sure how I got this video recommended but- yeah!- your video really helped me understand why I love drawing- as in, having a passion for the creative process for myself (and sometimes others around me when we collaborate) vs taking an art class. I love doing my own thing rather than being told what to do and recreate something. Like you said, it was just another math class. There was no creativity at all, it was just following a set of rules laid out to you by the teacher. I genuinely felt like creativity dies the moment you walk into an art class. This video unironically made me realize why I dreaded going to most of my art classes- it was because I wanted to have freedom to create whatever I wanted.

I enjoyed this video! :) I loved how you shared your personal experience with art. Many students and adults don’t realize how much art is in their everyday lives or realize they’re being creative. For me, art is the very core of human individuality, maybe we can make the same pictures but no one will ever make the same strokes as another. Everything man-made requires an artist to design it in their head first! At some point you get in too deep and you start to view the world in a different way, studying the physics of things. I was always drawing ever since I was a toddler so I found it interesting to hear your retrospective of art because you didn’t have such a close relationship as mine! And your humor and timing REALLY reminds me of Kurtis Connor with a twinge of Britney Broski (which is expected since you watch her lol). Awesome video man! Glad RU-vid recommended this video

When I took art in highschool, a lot of the focus was on how to use reference and one assignment was how to simplify things into a cartoon. But ultimately this lead us to assignments like Watch How to Train Your Dragon in class to 'study' texture then find a picture of some dragon art online and spend the next few class periods making a copy/study of that art while everyone is free to talk etc. Sure it didn't teach tons of fundamentals, but it was the first time I felt okay at art and is one of the major factors in me choosing to pursue it. And it's after I made that choice that I went on to learn fundamentals etc. Idk the value of making the most basic art class in hs be too serious, but different things appeal to different people, so who knows

I had a nephew tell me how much he hated history. I wondered how horrible a teacher would have to be to make the story of our lives boring. Art history can be just as poorly taught. Just rich peoples girl friends in fancy dress and religion ad nauseum. The damage of boring teachers is real. On the other hand one good teacher is life changing. I am an artist that never had a good teacher in school. I did apprentice with a labor muralist and found out what a good teacher is. Damn that was fun.

this vid came around at the perfect time ?? in philosophy class at school we read an article about how science and such was prioritized and humanities were gate kept by the upper class back then - i also remember my first year of high school i was in an art class and sat by these two guys (obsessed with science) who always complained about how art was useless… its been a few years and i want to believe that they think differently now (GOOD VIDEO)

WHERE ARE THE VIEWS this is so good !!! even as someone who was encouraged to do art from a young age, I really didn't flourish until AFTER leaving the school system. You're right on the markkk

As someone who's always been an artist, it's so surprising how completely opposite our perspectives are. For me, seeing, making and understanding art is the main reason to be alive. I really appreciate you sharing your experience and I only wish I could ask you more, because I find it fascinating how anyone could dread the thing I'm always looking forward to.

I hated art at school too even tho I LOVE painting and drawing as well. An example of how art class went: We were told to draw a city with the simplest perspective we had just learned.We _had_ to make all the angles 45° when we were drawing the 3D building.But I was already more advanced and used more complex perspectives because I wanted to make art I actually enjoyed. My teacher told me that I had to completely re-do the whole drawing because it was „unfair to the other kids“.He also told me to make easier drawing that required less skill for that reason. That really felt like the uniqueness of my art was being suppressed for the sake of others,and the thing is,not a single kid was offended because my drawings were more advanced (huge surprise,Ik).

Art teachers would basically scorn me for being creative. F school dude. Writing essays sucked because you weren't meant to add your own personality

That's a very interesting thing to think about it. My gripe with the art class is the complete opposite. We got to draw whatever we wanted in the realm of an assigned topic, but I don't recall ever being taught anything. And that's probably why I never got into doing any kind of visual art forms during or after school. Because I just sucked. Still can't draw a convincing simple three dimensional shape or apply colour correctly.

“It’s not my favorite thing in the world,but my life would be much worse without it” Felt that last part. Art has always been a part of me,but now I have an overworking injury,so I can’t make any. It’s been a little over a week and it feels like I’ve been through a long and arduous road to death,only to pull through and realize that I’m in hell. Only two whole months to go. Yippee

I had been teaching myself how to do character design for something like three years before I decided to go to art school. What it became was a restraint. It was the kind of art school that wants people who want to get into some kind of career with it. I could have, but I realized that I didn't want that. I just wanted to draw hot babes. I didn't give a shit about fundamentals (- at the time - they're extremely important, but you don't need college to learn them.) Everything I learned about art - everything - I taught myself via reading, practicing and learning online. I didn't spend a ton of money on that school, but I wish I hadn't spent any on them at all. Create what you want. If you can make cash from it, great. If not, who cares. Just don't give it up entirely. I'm currently in burnout, but I won't give it up. Creation is worth it.

great video again! while i enjoyed art in school, i always hated the classes for it. they always made you try different forms like sculpting and pottery that i just hated and did not care for at all. had a falling out with the drawing i used to do when i hit college, but now that i have more time ive been wanting to get back into it also the section on the humanities was perfect. had to take an art history class and to this day has been the only class ive fallen asleep in my god

In art class, we looked at art from around the world. I combined the styles and made my own piece i called PѦŮ. Each art piece name was a new word in a new language. My art teacher looked at it, then looked back at me. "That's a nice interpretation of a calculator."

My strat was to take pics of the art and then come up with my reviews and critiques after my trip so that i could be in the moment with my buddies/other students. It also allowed me to think it over in a quieter place.

artschool suppressed my creativity. I made me unable to come up with drawing ideas and motivation for them for years. I could only draw something if that was a task. Only now I am rediscovering the fun of drawing. Except now I have the skills to draw what I want. I think it's important to learn at your pace and not get overwhelmed with intensive training that sucks the life out of you. Even though you'd never say that to your teacher.

We had an art teacher at a school I went to who was strict about it. “Paint what you see, not what you think you see.” We had to do realistic art all the time (except for one unit we did zentangles, which I actually kind of enjoy). I am not good at making art. Or writing, for that matter, my lines are a mess. She would regularly make people cry, it was a common thing. If it was wrong enough she would run the piece under the faucet to clean the paint out of the paper and make you re-do it. We would have to keep re-doing it until it was right. We did watercolor, and she taught the technique and stuff, and she was a really good artist, passionate about art, but I didn’t really enjoy it. Minor gripe but not really a big problem, we also couldn’t use white paint. If we needed white, we didn’t paint the paper there. If we needed a color less vibrant, we watered it down. It’s fine, but a little annoying. The big problem was really the strict attitude to “do it right, or re-do it until it is.” I don’t like art anymore. I just don’t have the skills to make stuff look right. I guess it isn’t for me, lol. The stuff in my brain just can’t quite get put out from my hands or my mouth right.

I had almost the exact opposite relationship with art growing up. I even won awards, and after school I kept producing for a while. I even sold a few. But I've not made a new piece in like 5 years, and the time before that, it had been 10 or 15 years before that when I was still actively producing. Not sure it made much difference for either of us.

"you're not allowed to spend too much time on things that don't make money because then you might be happy" that's actually how I feel

remember that episode of spongebob called “Artist Unknown”? it perfectly reflects how art is treated in schools

1:55 Bro is channelling Kanye 😂

I wouldn’t say I like the old traditional art, but I like art in general. I do digital art, and I’m working on getting into animation. I’ve always been creative, and I always enjoyed making things. Art class was one of the few glasses in elementary school that I enjoyed (I didn’t experience high school or middle school, I was moved to home school during 5th grade) I remember in school, after I finished my work…I would draw sketches in my binder. I always enjoyed sketching and drawing little doodles, and I still do to this day. In my opinion, art (and creative media in general) is an important part of humanity, it’s how we express ourselves and stay sane. So…embrace creativity, and make whatever your mind can think of. And those who say that art is worthless and isn’t an important life skill, are ignorant boomers who don’t understand creativity. My sister got a college degree in graphic design, and if i went to college i would have taken some form of art major as well. Art is beautiful, and vital in our sad and depressing world. Art is what keeps us…sane

This was really interesting to watch as a sophomore at an art college, to me I always knew since I was very little I wanted to spend all my time making art. I hated art class in school too for pretty much the same reasons. It’s funny to see the perspective of someone in the opposite position as me having similar feelings. It was also interesting to see the perspective of someone who *doesnt* like going to art museums and galleries. Great video overall, thanks for sharing your experiences ^_^

I disagree on the basis that I had multiple art teachers that all taught differently-- I didn't necessarily agree with their opinions on art, but I took what I could from them. They had something I could learn from them and not necessarily strictly skill related. Granted, when you're young maybe it's a bit different. Though even in middle school before I cared much for art, my teachers never "punished" us for our skill. Especially in community college, they just wanted to see you try and tried to work with you, but maybe I got lucky, I don't know. I just mean that school isn't inherently an issue. The idea that when someone teaches you, even if it's in their given style, that it restricts your freedom and strips what makes art "art". Even videos where a creator "fixed" art I find valuable (except for the ones where they make the characters ugly and tried to make it seem like they did anyone a favor). Often times there will be people in the comments saying, "there is no right way to make art" and all that. Which sure, it's not like I disagree with that, but people can be short sighted. I don't always agree with the "fixes", but it's a useful perspective to have. Though when it comes to school, you need to appease the teachers-- ideally, as I said before, you have a good teacher and so it's not much of a problem. But even if I got a teacher that wanted me to exclusively think more abstract, that doesn't mean that my mind is going to be ruined. At the same time, if you get a teacher who teaches fundamentals, yet you just want to draw Goku or Demon Slayer the whole time, then maybe you should at least try-- I like anime a lot, but draw the damn egg first; don't take the class if you don't want to participate. I think that's where I'm coming from. I disagree that "school destroyed art's beauty", because it's what you make of it. Life is a learning experience, and if you have a bad time with anything, then yeah, that could do some damage. But even after all of the schooling I had with art, even if my teachers didn't like something, no one can tell me what to make. I took art classes, because I was interested in art. I didn't have to take the classes seriously and to be fair, there were times when I didn't. There were times when other students would shit-talk realism as though it's not "real art", because I think art can be anything and if you enjoy it that's what matters, realism or not. None of this ruined me, it just gave me a lot of experience in one way or another and it helped me discover what I want to make in my life. I just greatly dislike the doomerism in the sense that people really like to look at the negatives. "You disagree with how structured school tends to be? Well it ruined art completely and you only went backwards". Why's it need to be that way? So generalized. You can't always squeeze the positive out of a rotten lemon, but I feel like people overlook the positives because it's easier that way. There could be a shelf full of rotten apples and a single good one, yet the good one is the only one left at the end. Or they act like their one bad experience is all there is to it and life really just sucks like that, huh? Guess everyone deals with it, then. The same thing happens to video games. One bad game comes out in a sea of good games, well then "guess nothing is good anymore". It's over-dramatized and comes off as attention-seeking. It's hard for me to take seriously, which is why 99% of the time I ignore it. They aren't always wrong about everything, to be completely fair, but there's a limit to how extreme it is before I roll my eyes. At the end of the day, if you want to doodle and you don't like when someone says "don't draw the symbol, draw the model" or criticizes your "lack of skill", either don't take a class on art or ignore them and move on. There's a level of self-accountability that people don't want to take. Or they can't recognize that other styles exist and fail to put their own aside for just a second to try to learn something. No one is saying you can't doodle, but you aren't anymore correct by doing it. That's not more "real art" than what anyone else does, structured or not. School didn't destroy anything inherently; maybe a bad teacher did, maybe it's a lack of flexibility and understanding on you, I don't know. Learn what you can from the people and the world and make it your own. That's my Ted Talk, goodnight.

Art is a skill, but we shouldn't forget that it's also playtime.

Okay so i don't know how it works in gr9-10 and earlier ij canada, but i came here from eastern europe in gr11 and rn I'm gr12. My only school experience with art was a weekly class of "here is a theme, draw and show me in the end of the class". So pretty much right the opposite of what you had and oh gods we all hated it because of the lack of skills they gave us. No structure, no composition, barely any color theory, etc. And i was an animation meme kid. I carved it all, while absolutely hating all the other classes. I learned on myself a lot of stuff, i even went on online courses and it was awesome. No "step by step" learning, just actually good things and then weekly feedback on homework. I actually wanted to become wn artist since earliest years of my life. But then came my school that isn't even focused on arts. It is a very small school with a selection from visual and digital arts to photography(and drama but i have no idea on what's happening there). And you know what? It is so cool that i get to do something that I actually love 😭😭 even learn something. We had weekly art history lectures and yeah it is a little boring but it really helps. We have a lot of people who say that they want to go to uni for arts. My classes were more about " here is the topic, here are requirments/restrictions, feel free to do whatever until deadline and ask for feedback" Maybe i enjoy it because i have pretty strong technical skills with hundreds of studied behind and much nore further. But still, it is one of the best art experiences i had, a really good medium point between "do whatever" and "draw THIS like THIS"

I think people confuse illustration, painting and similar crafts with "art", In my opinion art is anything that conveys a meaning through a medium without explicitly pointing out that meaning, it could be a well written understandable and performant piece of code, it could be a server at Mcdonald's making everyone in line happy, an excellently crafted chair, anything where thought and care were used to convey that meaning, and I mean "anything", that's why "art" taught as another skill is actually OK, because an illustrator or a painter is not necessarily an artist, if what they make is devoid of meaning.

bro saw a drew gooden video and said "so THIS is youtube"

Just graduated with a BFA in 2D Animation. I often get discouraged seeing artists like me struggle to put food on the table and make my passion into a job. Seeing someone cynical talk about art and say, "I get it" in reguards to art, is comforting. Thank you for making this

As an artist, art class doesn't teach you art, it teaches you to hate the fundamentals of it, and trying it's best to stomp out your passion of it. Everything i know about art, is entirely self taught, art class doesn't teach art.

School is the antithesis of learning

I don't think you realize your already an artist. Theater is art and making and performing this video is art. there is two parts of art as far as I am concerned communication and interpretation. The communication of the author and the interpretation of the audience.

I had two teachers throughout my 5 years of art classes in school and i can say my first teacher definitely got me into art. We were a small school so we had two electives in 8th grade and that was art and band. I chose art and my first teacher made art interesting, taught the fundamentals, taught why it was important, would cater to each students help they needed, gave us a lot of freedom on what we could do with our projects, and made sure we could have art as a carrer as an option. My second teacher held that passion for us and was really layed back with what we did on our projects. She also explained that she has had multiple art careers teaching it to others. I think a good teacher really can help set you up for the field you want to be in, so long as the curriculum isn't constraining them from doing so.

This video is actually pretty cool, I see this video as some kind of art form in itself. There is a really strong sense of self expression in the videography and it follows along an interesting personal journey like a discursive text. I liked it, keep going man and you don’t need to compare yourself to others. I love art and the mental energy it takes to thoroughly enjoy a whole museum is exhausting for me as well, but I'm so glad you were able to reconnect with art because it’s so cool :)

Crying on cue is underrated

OR maybe we just have a whole generation of vegetables with tiktok brains.

There is a big misunderstanding about art here. Since there is no consensus on what art exactly is the best we can do is approximate and look at what an artist does. It is something like this : an artist explores the unknown, searching for the interesting and then drags it out of the immaterial into the real world where normies can experience it. Being good at this can not really be taught, school tried to teach what an artist does on another level. Learning about art is important because of the "unknown" part. In order to be original you need to map out the space of known art to differentiate, or you will just end up where others have already been. Imo much contemporary art is not art at all and abuses the publics misunderstanding for a quick buck.

Mad respect you talked about this topic, schools really need to allow you to make what you actually want and let your creative mind flow. I hated my art teacher and he honestly made me give up on art as a whole but I hope in the future we have things change.

I picked art for my GCSE, I draw like a cartoonist, the teacher told me to switch to photography, while I’ve been told my editing skills are realistic, I cannot for the life of me take good pictures to apply those skills to, if I had stayed in art I would have at least been closer to a passing mark than I am now.

I'm gonna throw in creative writing too. Maybe I was unlucky with this one class I had in college, but when the lessons gradually went away from writing techniques to topics completely unrelated to writing like how to counter tear-gas grenades and riot police rushes, I had to drop it. Bonus: Most of the stories we examined in the few actual writing lessons were anti-authority themed pieces.

I can relate heavily to your struggle. I can also see your influences as a RU-vid personality, you have a good future ahead if you pursue this!

This! The first art class i really enjoyed was in highschool despite taking art all of middle school. I remember hating those classes even as an artist because everything we made look the same with the exception of maybe a few colors or specific things we had on the table. Anytime we tried to take what we were given out of the norm it felt like we were being punished for it because it wasn't exactly as expected despite following the rules. I don't mind learning basics at all but it just felt so dull, we were making assignments not art pieces tbh. Then I got the best teacher in my highschool (which wasnt a traditional schoool to begin with). She had such an amazing system where every assignment she'd give you some fundemental to work on but pretty much anything else was up to you. Say that week was spent on perspective, youd have to include some specified form of it but as to what you drew or what medium you used was up to you. I saw some really amazing stuff then, despite it all being one assignment and focusing/being graded on the fundamentals still they all ended up being vastly different pieces. I remember if there was amedium you wanted to try but they didnt have in class she'd even buy it for you. I got to experiments with a lot of wild things that year and it was outsanding. Honestly, if more art classes were like that, i think a lot more people would enjoy it. I still have a lot of those pieces, they ended up being some of my best work because it felt we finally got some freedom after being stifled for so long.

this year all the classes i had were guided to humanities, and the only art class we had was called visual communication. we rarely got to pick what to draw, the projects were all unnecessarily complicated and time consuming, and more than once my art was scrapped because of something stupid, the teacher was rude and didn’t even bother with the class.

I haven't finished the video yet, but I must say this: dude, your voice is amazing! Very very pleasant to listen to. I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel.

I really feel this video, art in school made me think I hated art, my wife giving me art supplies and free reign to create and spend time together made me not hate art anymore, learning about art history made me like art. You might want to try some smaller art museums. They often won't have as lauded of pieces, but it does take a lot less time to make it through. I've really enjoyed my visits to the two largest art museums in North Dakota. Each is a great, free way to spend an hour.

I got lucky that the 'behavioral' school I went to had an art teacher that was actually an artist outside of teaching. He wasn't JUST a teacher. He was still a practicing artist and was even known to get some of his students into art contests and galleries when they had the skill. The assignments we got from him were NEVER the rote memorization type, when it came to actually arting. Sure, the history aspects were the usual 'memorize some blurbs about artist X so you can pass an unchallenging written test', and we all knew the teacher himself felt those history tests were pointless, and that he was going through the bare minimums for meeting state requirements. When we were actually given an art assignment, instead of being told to 'draw X', we were told to 'incorporate X into your drawing'. We were a low-budget school, so we rarely got to do anything that wasn't a pencil on printer paper, but still. It worked much better for helping understand the foundational concepts and dial them in. I also managed to get him interested in Manga, after getting VERY offended at hearing him call manga style art 'an invariable, inbred style' off-hand, and deciding to make a list for him to look at covers from different series to demonstrate the variety in style despite being constrained so heavily in medium. I do also remember my Art teacher specifically lamenting that he had no budget, and that the paints and other stuff we occasionally got to work with were bought out of his own pocket. There were a number of students, myself included, who just didn't mesh with pen and paper. He specifically complained that he wished we could do more sculpting and painting, 'so I can see what you are ACTUALLY capable of'. I wish more people had Art teachers that gave a care about Art. Even just teachers in general who cared about teaching how to think, instead of how to memorize and regurgitate.

holy crap man im so happy i found this video, you literally have the exact same humor i love. keep up the good work man!

i think maybe my middle just had good art classes bcs they genuinely made me interested in art, i loved hearing about art history which is what they mainly taught and trying to understand the movements, even though im not that good at visual art and i dont really do it a lot, i love art.

18:55 I saw Homage to the Square : Sentinel - Josef Albers for one second and I had to look it up. I had no idea why it called to me, just it looked really pretty and vibrant like a closeup of a beautiful rose petal. I saw the other art and appreciated the perfect rigid lines with each shade, how they complimented each other. There was a couple I disliked, but once I saw the pattern used on top of the piece I enjoyed it even more. How each canvas held a quilt behind it made the fondness and familiarity of it come closer than I had known before. It is beautiful; simplistic.

"How'd that happen, huh? Who let that happen" and that cut was so wonderfully awkward, keep up the good work bud

Art is a pretty easy thing to learn. I thought about getting into a art class for highschool, but figured that I already knew how to and just didn’t do it.

Dude I’ve been in artblock for the past 2 years, picking up a pencil to draw has been the most miserable thing imagine these last few months. All my passion in it has just left my body, but something about this video makes me want to paint so bad

I was really thankful that we had a art teacher who really cared about us learning art and did all the right things to engage with us in a way that a art class should. I even remember with a lot of us she would find that we had certain strengths and interest in what we were good out creatively and assign us particular projects based on that

there wasnt an art class in my primary school, i remember doing ONE art lesson, i was probably basically foaming at the mouth cause of how much i loved art

i dident learn jackshit in school, and in history it was all remembering dates of when something happened without actually knowing what was going on or why it happened or its effects. then after school i was confused why everything was the way it was so i decide o binge read wikipedia to learn history, to get a baseline and then later learn what is a lie. now i know global geopolitics, history and geography. i think school literly causes people to hate learning and reading, since they force you to read books in school and "teach" you what numbers go where to pass the test. and in the same way people grow up in school hating everything

"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol

Thats exactly how I felt about school art. School made me detach from art so much that I totally forgot about it for years. There would be one or two projects that reignited that passion for just those 2 weeks and they were my best works in my entire time of school. I remember my teacher looking at my work and being surprised like in a "You can actually draw?" type of way. Like yeah bitch, the shit you make us do is plainly boring and uninteresting. How am I supposed to do good work when I'm completely uninterested in that subject.

Finally, a therapist that actually understands

art classes ruined any love i had for art.

My high school art curriculum was so god-awful that it made me take up art as a hobby again just so I felt like I was still learning something. They didn't teach a SINGLE lesson on any techniques, methods, or terminology. They told you to make a project, then you did. You also had to absorb a bunch of nonsense art trivia that you don't care about, nor ever would. They made you critique art, but I found it so irritatingly hard to say what they wanted, until one time when I was so done with it that I just spoke out my ass until I hit 1000 words and handed that in. Best mark I got for critiquing. A waste of 2 years of classes. I learned more on my own.

if i could invest on a channel, i probably would invest on yours, if it werent for your haircut, but genuinely the charisma here is overflowing

It's so interesting hearing from other people how dull and paint-by-numbers like (pun so intended) their experience with art in school is or was. For me personally, my high school's art class is a joy to be in, i get a project to do and for most of the time, i get to express myself with it. Putting my own flair, interests and unique traits into it, i don't see Art in school as a waste of time or boring at all. So i guess the theorist in me just loves hearing others opinions, experiences and feelings, especially when it comes to art. Edit: oh and i think it's because my art teacher is just generally great at their job, and right now we're making sculptures out of newspaper and wallpaper-glue so the creativeness in me shows a lot in that class lol

this had reminded me of my experience with an art class, I mainly did art class Because i specifically love digital art, (pixel art) and thought going into art would help improve that. However, after a couple days, the teacher had told me that Pixel art isnt Art, and that i should learn to draw, however, since i was bad at drawing, i took some Square lined paper and did pixel art there, and it was completely fine. (i did get a pass in the end anyway)

20:04 That's nothing to be ashame of , I have no problems with Abstract/ Contemporary art but sometime people forgot art is a VISIUAL medium, i found the need to look for extra context to made a peice enjoyable is somewhat prestigious, let the canvas speak for itself.

This is also why I enjoy working on cosplay so much. You practice a lot of manual crafting skills, don't have to stare at a screen for a few hours and get a very cool tangible reward in the end. It's similarly meditative to sitting down and painting.

You are young... when you get older you will understand.

I wanted to be an animator for Disney when I was a kid (really glad I didn’t pursue that path). So when my 8th grade home room teacher told us they were planning a trip to the art museum in the state’s capital, I was thrilled. We get there and were paired with a guide. And I was so disappointed. Instead of a wide variety of art ranging from all the different eras of art history, it was all postmodernism and void of any merit. It was like going to an Italian restaurant but the only items on the menu were variations on chicken parmigiana. Making it worse? The guide couldn’t answer any basic questions about the artwork. She’d just tell us to read the attached description and try to describe what made the artwork so great. It was terribly disappointing to say the least and the beginning death knell for my dream as an animator.

Blind Dweller is a great RU-vidr to watch if you want to learn more about art history :) Great video!

artists being associated with starving got me

dude looks 12 and 20 at the same time.

Through in my elementary and my early middle schoo years l I hated Art too, I saw it was just a waste of time and energy, and why making a couple of drawings need to be so serious, It wasn't until my late of 9th grade that I found out about animation in youtube and MOSTLY fanarts of games that I like through the Internet that I thought It was cool and made me want to make one myself, I NEVER REALIZED TO VIEW GAME AS AN ART, It was such a mind opening moment for me where everything I see Is an art, the book I read and what they wanted to tell is an art, the music I heard and how it conveys is an art. sadly It was still the same in my High School that Art isn't viewed important there was supposed to be an art extracurricular that I really really wanted to join but the school couldn't allow it because there was to little members and made me sad, My Art teacher actually perked up to me seeing how I improved and wanted to view more in Art seriously actually, but It was to late in the line before I could've Improved my skills to be viewed with my Art teacher as high to be offered in like contributing in a art competition or something like that, I really wished I could've taken seriously with art before and maybe I could've seen my truest and highest potential right now before I turn this old now :')

i didnt know your name and when you first showed your painting i genuinely thought it was like some dadaist movement era artist because the style feels like something that would be found in a more surrealist exhibit lol

shout out to my elementary school art teacher Mr. Nagy. He taught art the right way and I freaking loved it.

I love art more than anything. But when I took art class it felt like a chore and was BORING. I only got ONE assignment that I could go crazy with and be creative it was an animation and all I got to make was a WALKING ANIMATION. They taught me about form and color techniques and stuff but sometimes its nice to just go crazy with it and not be constricted by form and the normal rules of art.

When I was in high school I saw lots of incidents of kids getting in trouble for making things. A kid biting a poptart into the shape of a gun turning into a news story. Kids drawing skulls and monsters or writing edgy poetry getting sent to psychologists. Kids with senses of humor getting beaten down. It became very clear we were only allowed to see OTHER people doing these things, but it was not something anyone thought was appropriate for us. So when we grew up, we didn't do any of it unless we were willing to break our spines pushing back against the schools when we were children. Forcing children to distrust every adult around them in order to protect their creativity and spirit is abomination. I get that your experience might not have been this brutal, but mine was. I was nearly taken from my parents because I refused to be crushed by school bureaucrats.

This explains very well why learning is not fun in education

Omgg dude I thought you were famous hahahah this was a very entertaining video. Additionally Broski Nationnn unitee

Speaking about art education from childhood, it is very important to approach it correctly. I mean, there is an academic system (not in all countries) that contains a set of dogmas and templates (recipes for how to draw). Such ready-made recipes can "dry out" and kill the creative individuality in a child. The teacher must guide in the right direction, taking into account the individual vision of each person, his worldview. There is an opinion that a child cannot express his worldview, that first he must master the basics, and in adulthood begin self-expression. It seems to me that a person who was scolded from childhood for his vision and taught to draw according to schemes will then also be afraid to express himself. Such a person will not make an artist, only a craftsman.

this video's a really fun introspection and all, but on top of that your humour and its pacing is so fkn funny, im audibly giggling multiple times through watching this lmao

This video makes me appreciate that I was lucky enough to have some really cool art teachers that actually taught you how to make cool and creative stuff.

thankfully my art teacher is extremely good at what she does. she lets us collaborate and talk to each other. when we do projects she gives us the guidelines and lets us have free reign as long as we follow the base idea of what the project is. i love my art teacher and art class and am very glad we have an awesome teacher

if it makes you feel better i don’t relate to you i’ve been drawing since i was 10 and i loved art class hope u feel a little more special king and i loved the vid

i think you would enjoy baumgartner restoration on youtube! julian restores paintings for a living and he tells beautiful stories about the art and artist and its journey to ending up getting restored by him ❤

My mom is an artist and she always dragged me to different art exhibits. And to me, going to museums is kinda a skill I learnt? There will always be one or two pieces that you "like" but really having fun and enjoying it all throughout took some learning for me to do. As I understand it (talking with friends) some ppl just love going to museums from the start... but as a child I found it really boring. At least traditional art. But then I learnt how to sort of, critique? Talk about? art? I still only think it's fun to go *with* someone (preferably my mom) and talk about the pieces... doing it alone doesn't do much for me. And I'm also very much an artist myself XD I love making art. But that doesn't mean it came to me naturally to *look* at art.

51 years I was a sick depressed 16 year old that liked to draw. I sucked at math and hated it the way you hated art. Jr year I rode the short bus to a half day vocational school for a commercial art class. I picked up an airbrush and changed my life. I’m 67 now and have a money making skill few have.