I actually had to google how to spell FEBRUARY. And honestly, if you ask me again in 10 minutes to spell it I won't be able to. There hasn't been too much of Feb '11 yet, but so far it's a good sign of the rest of '11. I haven't had anything too interesting to blog about recently, soo I haven't. Right now my life is my art classes. And part of me hates it, but most of me secretly loves it. I am beyond in love with my color design class. I don't even mind it being at 8am. I just ingest an unhealthy amount of coffee and hang onto every word my professor says. This is actually why I'm writing today. And partly because I'm procrastinating on laundry. But mostly because today I realized how happy I am with what I've chosen to do. Mr. Meade, my professor for that class, was discussing how genuine color is. He was talking about how painting does something that nothing else can do, no other form of art, nothing. Then he directed his lecture towards the graphic design/ advertising majors. He said, "One day when you're working someone is going to ask you to come up with a way to get more teenagers to smoke camel cigarettes. And you're going to have to do it. Because that's what advertising is; it's making someone think to do something that they normally wouldn't. It's deceitful." I don't think he was trying to pick on the graphics kids, but I do think he said something that he didn't verbalize. What I got out of that is that painting is just pure, good, old fashioned art. You see what you see in a painting and you feel what you feel. There's a Jackson Pollock quote that I'm in love with, "Every good painter paints what he is." (What does that say about Pollock?? haha)
But that's what painting IS! Haha, sorry it's just so exciting to me. I'm just ecstatic to be a part of the kind of art that shows the painter's soul. And sometimes the viewer's too. Happy February everyone. I hope 2011 is the one.
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