Coming Out of the Closet

I have a confession to make...




I don't like abstract expressionism.



In fact, I fucking hate it. I have made earnest attempts to analyze and understand it, in the hope that this would generate some positive sort of feeling towards it, but the results are always the same- a colossal waste of time and energy. I can't help it. I find it to be pretentious, meaningless bullshit. Is it a choice? Was I made this way? I can't say for sure; you'll just have to pray for me.

I was inspired to write this after producing yet another abstract shitpile for my "sculpture" class at the university. I figure that even if I get an F on it, that will still throw some points my way. That's better than no points, eh? Some small compensation for the hours of torture.


Update (10/28/09)

So, after I handed my project in, my professor literally cringed. He has since been putting off the critique of all the late pieces, and today he revealed that it's because my piece is so shit. He wants me to continue working on it over the weekend.

Peck Drawing: WIP 2

Nothing terribly exciting- I'm just excited that I had a chance to work on it at all (and I worked on it to the exclusion of important school assignments). I refuse to let this project languish and die. Anyway, got the other eye mostly finished-

Homme Doodle

My drawing "professor" has been irritating me lately, so I thought I'd doodle something for fun.



The story with the instructor was that this person marked me down on a drawing, because I used "patterning that doesn't describe the form." In other words, the lines I made did not follow the contours of the shape I was trying to depict. Now, I recognize that this is a valid technique, which has useful applications (the above sketch is experimenting with it, and it is kinda fun). However, to dock my points because I opted not to use the technique is... well, shenanigans. There is no such thing as a "correct" technique. The correct technique is simply one that gets the job done: you like it, it looks good, and it does what you want it to do.

Moral of the story: don't let anyone perpetuate this brand of bullshit. There's no "right" way to do anything. Even if there was, would you want to be right?