Nice trips.
>studied figure drawing 4 years
>studied original master drawings in british museum
You and everyone one else whose taken a figure drawing course? Am I supposed to be impressed by this? The bare minimum for any classical training is
1. observational drawing (from casts or nature, take your pick)
2. master copies
If you didn't do either of those, you were cheated.
>Picasso was a great draftsman
>not top 10 all time
See? This is what I mean by the dishonesty of this conversation. Even when you agree with me, you still call me a cunt.
>I don't think that realism is something that's worthless.
That's a good start. Because it's impossible to ever be truly realistic. Thus the pursuit of it to begin with, and thus the outcry of the absurdity when people abandon it. It's as if, "What? This isn't good enough for you?".
>. It's important in that realism and the rules of composition and such should be learned before an artist attempts to break all these rules
I don't know when this idea became popular in art, but it's absolutely terrible. there are no "rules" in art, or in life. There are repeated attempts at describing rules that you perceive, and with that, like I said above, from that comes the pursuit, the adventure of realism, but realism is not complete. when you dismiss it as "just following rules", you completely glaze over any of the nuance and detail and infinitesimal changes that only a realist will notice, ones that the glib modern artist takes for granted.
> minor imperfections
They're not minor. You NEED to see these paintings in person.
> One of those types who shit on modern art saying, "Oh, I could have easily done that." Well you didn't do it, and if you did maybe people would give a shit about you and your art
You didn't read my post above. I LITERALLY "DID DO THAT".
>That's the thing about realism these days. No one gives a shit about it anymore and it impresses almost no one.
You're not only wrong, but likely don't talk to or know actual working artists who practice realistically.
> Go wank to the Greek Ideal a little more and rant ineffectually on anonymous boards about how your raw skill impresses someone other than the less naturally adept pre-dropouts that were in your introductory life drawing classes.
Again, you're not actually reading my post. You're arguing with the quintessential, bitter, classicist boogeyman who doesn't know life outside of /ic/. I grew up around all types of artists, modern, contemporary, conceptual, rational, irrational, realistic, naive, you name it, I know someone, I'm friends with them, I've studied their work.
I'm not who you want me to be. Read the posts.
>kandinsky
Not even remotely. It's incredible how anyone likes him. Another unnecessary poster-child of art history. Everytime I hear someone bloviate about synesthesia I want to vomit.
>mixing is so pedestrian
Don't pretend you know what you're talking about- it's not becoming.