Sunday, October 08, 2006
Commie B*&ard Artists:
I ran onto this picture while going through my stuff looking for some of my old stop motion reference books for my Woodbury stop motion student.
It is a cute picture of my son, age 2. I painted the background and left it to dry. Tobias picked up a dry paintbrush and did what his daddy did. I snapped a picture.
Some of are greatest animators are second generation artists, Glen Keane, John Lasseter. Why is that? Okay I will tell you why. It is Sputnik!
Sputnik goes up in 1957 and it is decided at the highest levels of education that we have to raise a generation of nothing but scientists. The plan to create this generation of von Brauns called for the immediate evisceration of all funding to the arts.
Music and Art took the hardest hits because it takes years to create a musician or an artist and you have to start training them young. The musicians got music back into the schools quickly but where are the grade school art programs?
Grade school art programs, all gone! Only be to replaced 30 years later by anti-art programs like Meet the Masters, a sick combination of art history and mindless robot/slave paste-up projects designed to kill off any true art aspirations in our young.
No one is getting real art training until high school. That is why it takes 2 generations to create an artist. It use to be that to be educated you had to be able to draw, paint, play a musical instrument, and speak at least one foreign language. Now students only get language and art offered to them in high school. This is way too late for either of these fields of endeavor.
That means that I get students in college who are more than weak in the fundamentals of art. Students that need another 10 years of training to come up to professional standards. And there is not a damn thing the finest drawing teacher in the universe can do about it. We can give them basics but when they leave the program many students still are lacking in proficiencies that they are going to have to make up under fire while trying to make a living.
The Hollywood blacklist ended in 1960. When the hell are we going to stop treating grade school art training as a communist conspiracy? ¶ 8:49 AM
I ran onto this picture while going through my stuff looking for some of my old stop motion reference books for my Woodbury stop motion student.
It is a cute picture of my son, age 2. I painted the background and left it to dry. Tobias picked up a dry paintbrush and did what his daddy did. I snapped a picture.
Some of are greatest animators are second generation artists, Glen Keane, John Lasseter. Why is that? Okay I will tell you why. It is Sputnik!
Sputnik goes up in 1957 and it is decided at the highest levels of education that we have to raise a generation of nothing but scientists. The plan to create this generation of von Brauns called for the immediate evisceration of all funding to the arts.
Music and Art took the hardest hits because it takes years to create a musician or an artist and you have to start training them young. The musicians got music back into the schools quickly but where are the grade school art programs?
Grade school art programs, all gone! Only be to replaced 30 years later by anti-art programs like Meet the Masters, a sick combination of art history and mindless robot/slave paste-up projects designed to kill off any true art aspirations in our young.
No one is getting real art training until high school. That is why it takes 2 generations to create an artist. It use to be that to be educated you had to be able to draw, paint, play a musical instrument, and speak at least one foreign language. Now students only get language and art offered to them in high school. This is way too late for either of these fields of endeavor.
That means that I get students in college who are more than weak in the fundamentals of art. Students that need another 10 years of training to come up to professional standards. And there is not a damn thing the finest drawing teacher in the universe can do about it. We can give them basics but when they leave the program many students still are lacking in proficiencies that they are going to have to make up under fire while trying to make a living.
The Hollywood blacklist ended in 1960. When the hell are we going to stop treating grade school art training as a communist conspiracy? ¶ 8:49 AM
