If some guy from New York can paint a canvas white and call it 'art', then have it auctioned off for $50,000

Question

What is the point, really, in getting a Fine Arts degree?

Answer 1

when breaking the "rules" of art it helps to know them, when somebody paints like that, it is conceptual- a concept. It is a theoretical practice not technical. When you're the first to break a concept and create something new then you can rip someone off.

Answer 2

Let's hope that when all is said and done, this type of nonsense
will turn out to be a passing fad. But until it's over, there will be those will take advantage of a gullible public. Perhaps if we had serious art appreciation classes in our public schools, then there would not be as many people fooled into thinking that this kind of trash is art.

That being said, if you have the talent most definitely go for that degree. This is all about bettering yourself. Don't let what is currently happening in the art world keep you from doing that.

Answer 3

An art degree is just a license to enter the fame and fortune lottery of this chosen field. The crowning indignity for those who spend 6 years studying art: Some people with a GED or high school degree hit the "sure he only glues painted macaroni onto jars, but he's a genius" jackpot.

Wacky!

Answer 4

Getting a Fine Arts degree won't make one an artist, and neither will painting a canvas white and selling it for $50,000. There are mature and immature criteria in art or anything else, after all.The only type of artist who gets paid well for white canvases is a con artist dealing with a gullible fool. An apocryphal story says Pablo Picasso told an interviewer, "I am a mountebank peddling trash to fools". There is much of that around for a century or more. Salvador Dali said that the best painting is the most realistic and rated various artists in history. Best of all is Jan Vermeer van Delft of the Baroque period. Just behind him is Diego Velasquez. Then, we have the Renaissance masters Raphael Urbino and Leonardo da Vinci. Dali scores himself far below these men, but Picasso and Mondriaan are far below him. Anyone who tries to pass of white canvases as Fine Art should get what King Edward "Longshanks" gave William Wallace and also get minus scores on Dali's ratings.

Answer 5

To add substance to the white canvas painting. An artist who paints it and sells it for $50,000 is an artist with a well established reputation for painting great works of art. Since few except those interested in art would know anything about his other paintings, the artist choose to rebel against the ignorant by shocking them at first sight of his artwork. In other words, it's an inside prank by the artist who spent years gaining little recognized for his gifted works, but gaining recognition for his white canvas painting. Simply ironic.

Answer 6

Well, Warhol got away with Brillo boxes and called it ""art"", why not a white canvas? The artsy-fartsy crowd would have screamed for that painting! Of course, the rich, bored people who perpetrate this nonsense are to blame for this BS that is called art nowadays.

The masters must be turning in their graves at nonsense like this!

I totally agree with you -what IS the point? Koko the Lowland gorilla shows more talent in her oils than most homo sapien ""artists"" that I have seen!

Answer 7

The degree is not related to money. The guy maybe lucky that another nut guy spent the money for the white paint. Running for Fine Arts degree is not the same with chasing for money.

Answer 8

A fine arts degree is about as useful as history, liberal arts and psychology.

Answer 9

You don't become an artist to make money...that's for businessmen. You become an artist because you want to paint, draw, sculpt or throw a pot. The reward is in the making, not the sale of the output which is best left to dealers and agents.

Answer 10

Don't give up. Lots of people still appreciate real art. Being rich isn't everything. You still have to live with yourself.