/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6568864
It's even worse, they get all the government funded projects and even the private funded projects because the board is made up of people with a masters degree in fine arts or art history. I am classically trained and make a living from selling my work, but getting into an art residency or being part of a funded show would help me out a lot but I get nothing but rejections. Sure, my work might be just mediocre, but the amount of shit I get when I meet one of those people in person is absurd. If you try to make something beautiful and especially when it contains well constructed figures they literally screech and start talking shit. They literally don't want this type of art to exist. It also creates a weird social dynamic, where they treat me as some type of oppressor or tyrant, when in reality those who criticize me make more than double the money I make with a secure salary and big bonuses when they create political stuff for government shows.

Sometimes I question myself putting myself into this absurd situation where I struggle and get shit on from above, but I am hopeful that things will change or that I get so good that I become untouchable. Partly I think we are guilty of this, we are playing far too nicely, literally every neo-classical artist says "let's just appreciate all art and play nice" whereas the contemporary modernists want us gone forever.

>>6506875
watch your proportions, bitch is like 80% torso