I have a prejudice against art students.
I'm sure that someone has already said something similar in here, but I'll rant a bit anyway.

I happen to live in a town with a college that has a good arts school. If I go into that area of town I can always spot the art students very easily- they're the ones with oddly dyed hair, lots of tattoos, old clothing that's been carefully stained and torn, mismatched shoes, often riding one of those bikes that's been made to hold the rider six feet off the ground.

I went to that particular school, and at one point took a class in the Arts building. They looked at me as though I were lost, someone who clearly didn't belong there in my clean tee shirts and jeans with sneakers. All of them trying so desperately to show their individualism through their hair and clothes... which, in truth, may as well have been a uniform. And if you were in there in the evening working on a project, invariably someone would be playing something utterly obscure (with good reason, as most of it sucked) or something ironic like 1940s jazz crooners.

But far worse than that were the dimwitted ideas that I heard coming from their pierced mouths. For example, a friend of mine was taking down a dead tree near an apartment building and a half dozen art students stood out on the fire escape screaming at him for being a tree murderer. They couldn't care less that it was already dead, or that they were in fact standing on a wooden platform made of dead trees- he was a tree murderer for using a chainsaw.

I got to know a few art students who actually were pretty bright and stood out a bit, but they were the rare exceptions, and even they shook their heads in disgust at the others.
( Wanderer, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 23:08, 8 replies)

I read your title thinking I was going to get all affronted
as I am studying art, in a manner of speaking.

But I actually agree with much of your content.
You would probably never paint me as an art student from the outside alone (unless you got me engaged in some pretentious art wank conversation or saw me in my paint-splattered artclothes). But then I'm not exactly Miss High Street fashion either.

For the record, I found sixth form college much the same - a bunch of nearly adults breaking free from the shackles of mummy and daddy and seeing who could be most 'alternative'.
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 23:21, closed)

The hell of it is
there's no shortage of people with artistic talent, just a shortage of people who'll actually do anything useful with it. Having artistic talent in itself is nowhere near enough, yet most of them think they're Andy Warhol.

They annoy me.
( Wanderer, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 1:46, closed)

I studied architecture for a while
I realised I would never fit in with the art community when in the third year more than half the year had 'come out of the closet' yet none of them actually had a boyfriend/girlfriend. Choosing sexuality as a lifestyle is just a weird choice!!
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 23:28, closed)

Besides, architecture students are just snooty civil engineers with no grasp of mechanics.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 23:52, closed)

Holy Gabrielle a few weeks ago
Said something very similar.
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:33, closed)

Same here
Went to a rural university and the art school was full of pretentious wankers. The girls were lesos (not the hot type) and most of the blokes were full of their own sense of self worth. I bet the are still 'starving for their art'. Or are teaching. Cunts.
(Snapper-head loves a twinky anytime but especially when it's, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:42, closed)

rimmer: YOU went to art college? How did YOU get into art college?

Lister: The usual normal usual way, failed all my exams and applied, they snapped me up.
(Obi wanker nobi Its not a bug, its an unexpected feature, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 13:56, closed)

Drop outs
Art does seem to be one of those subjects that attracts people who basically want to kill three years. I genuinely feel for the people who take the course because they're talented and hard-working and want to make something of themselves. Media Studies seemed to similarly snap up a lot of wasters and more recently... IT. Just watch the year group shrink each year as (some) people realise that it actually involves work, not just big piles of free money.
( Ennui loves you, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 22:41, closed)