/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2853375
I thought it was noah too

>>2194984
How many of these graduates get featured in art galleries and also how many actually sell enough to make even close to a livable wage? Maybe we should start having classes for people to study how to be professional athletes and how to buy lottery tickets too, lmao

>gallery artists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9skl9nijPM

>You're talking like technical proficiency = cash. It doesn't. OP could learn to paint like bougereau, and...

The failure rate (both literal and holistically speaking) even for artists whose work is comprehensible (outside of the turbo-niche of people whom are actually still impressed with Pollock and Duchamp derivative works in the year 2015) isn't great, but I'm not personally advocating going to school for them either unless they have a substantial scholarship to one of the top institutions so that point is moot. So many artists are made and broken on their own terms. Why take the financial risk of getting set up with some mouth breathing abstract pedant who's only capable of reciting vague "art" terminology while not being able to apply it himself in any meaningful way?

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fgek45hg/no-3-fine-arts/

>>2192360
Please don't think that by sharing his anecdote I or anyone else on the board "idolizes" him. I shared that portion of Bradley's essay because it's topical to the self-teaching discussion. I didn't share it because I think super highly of Noah himself (not that I think particularly low of him as a lot of people here do, just for the record, but that may be because I don't know dick about him to begin with), rather he is a successful working artist who purports to have studied far more on his own time and promoted himself on his own time to achieve his current level of success in his chosen industry. I can't imagine anyone on this board has taken a single class of his or attended one of his lectures so if he truly is some kind of con artist as you're implying it wouldn't affect anyone here in the slightest.

Many of the users here are at the very least, I feel, hopeful for another way to achieve success than attending a ludicrously expensive formal art college. As an artist I want to know that it's possible and I want to share the thoughts of working artist's that help support that view. Stephen Silver's story and his career for example should be pretty inspiring to anyone here.

>>1950113
They're not my friends

>>1931355
Having fun with your daki, anon?

>>1930879

Oh anon please buy my lecture <3

xoxox Noah Bradley

:)))

This guy pinches your girlfriend's ass at a Massive Black workshop.

Wat do.

This guy slaps your girlfriend on the ass in a Massive Black Workshop.
Wat do?