Today, my friend and I were in her mom's car talking about which job was harder: actor or artist. I said, "Art is easy. You just scribble on a piece of paper and call it abstract art." Her mom squinted at me in the rear-view mirror and my friend stopped talking. Then she said, "My mom is an artist." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finished a big art project. It was a self-portrait done in acrylics. Proud of my piece, I showed my mom. After some thought her first comment was, "well, I'm either going to insult your art or your face." FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I was interviewing a woman for a job. She told me that she may need days off because of her artistic son. I jokingly replied, "Does he color on the walls or something?" She then stared at me with a weird look on her face. Autistic, her son is autistic. FML
Today, I was partnered up with a girl in my art class, since the teacher had asked us to take turns drawing portraits of each other. I went first and felt pretty proud of how the drawing turned out. I showed it to her and she said "That's OK. I'm not good at drawing either." FML
Today, I found out that my mom paints, and that I was artistically represented in a painting, as Satan, in a painting made shortly after I told her that I was an atheist. FML
Today, I learned how artistically talented my daughter is. Unfortunately, her favorite medium to work in is poo. FML
Today, I was talking to an art critic at an exhibition. He told me that the artist had no talent and went on to tell me everything wrong with each painting. I'd painted them all. FML
Today, despite me being a master-level carpenter, and my art sells for thousands, I heard my mom telling her snobby friends how embarrassed she is of me because I’m “basically unemployed” and waste my time on “hobby crafts” like a teenage nerd instead of getting “a real job” and finding a wife. FML
Today, a friend asked me to come with her to the art building at school so I could pose in the stance of a figure she was drawing for her exam. I obliged and sat for the pose. When the art teacher walked by, she looked at me, then at the sketch, pointed to the legs, and said, "Make them fatter". FML
Today, I looked over my next homework assignment for art class. It was to draw a portrait of my best friend. I can't think of anyone besides my mother. FML
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1234jnimawe 0
well youre an idiot because art is much more complicated ... ... I can't draw for my life nor can I pass it off like I can ... meanwhile people will see a movie with jessica Simpson and call that "acting" ... it ain't hard
choochootrain 0
...honestly? Comparing actors and artists is like comparing apples and pears. Done well, each require talent and effort.
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TheSuitGuy 0
YDI since you should know what your friend's mom does for a living. But seriously, artists and actors get paid too much for doing shit all.
hawaiianxpunchx3 0
well, u have your opinion
HPfan 0
I agree with OP... acting is a lot harder, and these days art does look like stuff a 5 year old could 'create'
av232 0
some art might look like crap but that doesn't mean it's easy to draw :D
eastmanwolf 0
It could have been worse. Three of my friends were at dinner once and one of my friends said she wanted to be a substitute math teacher because it was "so easy" and another friend's father said "Really? Explain." and let her go on for five minutes before revealing that he was a substitute math teacher.
paperfox_fml 0
Your friend's father is a prick. I bet his students hate him, and he probably wonders why.
cherlana32 0
Have you really did both? I guess we should all believe you then. Ahhhhhahahahahahahaha...
Miss_Septemberr 0
wow, #19 that's really dramatic.
lesp 6
I agree because I believe the same thing. And, before you flame the OP or myself, listen. We're not saying all art is easy. Most is amazing and requires much talent and practice. All we're saying is that you could also be an "artist" just by making abstract crap anyone could paint or draw. To be a really famous actor you at least need some talent.
saailaway 0
BAHAH so true though
stinkybutt 0
THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING IGNORANT.
GabriLee 0
So here's the thing - both are hard, both take talent, and you could make a fortune in both by only being mediocre. It's all luck and what the public thinks. Acting is something anyone can do. Children can make a small fortune under the age of five, or if people have mediocre acting skills, but another benefit (in some cases looks) they can make it to the big screen anyway. Or, they can go the long road, practicing and learning, working their way up the ladder and truly being great. That, is talent. Artists can work the same way. As an artist, I have to say, even I lack a certain respect for modern and abstract art. Very few pieces of abstract art have actually captured me, and even those who have wouldn't have necessarily taken talent, just an interesting perspective on my part. Jackson Pollock is one whom I very nearly disrespect for his fame. He was not the first, nor will he be the last to splatter paint, so who is he to write his name onto "action painting"? Yet, here he is, making a fortune off something an infant could accomplish. Then, there are people at my level - a bit of natural talent, a bit of studying, but nothing extreme, usually only specializing in one area of art and will most likely never amount to anything more than a hobby in their art. Then there are the greats. With loads of schooling, practice, vision, knowledge, observing, understanding and patience that gets them to be where they are, and where they belong - in fame and hanging in museums worldwide. Many of the greats excel in more than one area of art and I have eternal respect for them. In the end, the question is not a fair one to ask. Both are exceedingly difficult if you truly wish to excel.
lmmmr 0
Jackson Pollock's fame does not come form his particularly outstanding talent for throwing paint at a canvas. It comes from his redefinition of the artist as a medium for art that creates itself. Jackson Pollock threw paint at canvases in order to illustrate a new interpretation of art as an expression in an of itself rather than an illustration of an expression. The concept that art has a life of its own independent from the artist was virtually unexplored at the time, and THAT is why Jackson Pollock receives the acclaim that he recieves. I'm sure in Picasso's day he recieved criticism for 'unnecessary' abstraction as well. Is picasso any less of a master for it? Why is schooling even a factor in art? Either you are creative and insightful and talented, or you are not. For your studies, you seem very closed minded.
GabriLee 0
My teacher did not like Pollock either, so he did not spare him too many kind words. I do not deny Pollock's pioneering of his own style, but I am personally a fan of realism and to see a work by Pollock hanging in a room next door to paintings by Manet, it makes me shake my head in disappointment because though Pollock's ideas were new the start of a movement, I don't see the movement as anything extraordinary. It is just a matter of personal opinion. Then again, what can you expect from a portrait artist? The skill it took the greats to replicate their subject with a brush leaves me in absolute awe.
lmmmr 0
Replication doesn't impress me.
GabriLee 0
Okay, and? Does that make you better than everyone else? Unless you're Jackson Pollock himself, then your bashing of my art is not warranted at all.
jnic 0
So they're not allowed to say that realism doesn't impress them, but you're allowed to say that Pollock doesn't impress you? Wow, hypocrite.
GabriLee 0
Haha They're bashing my entire area of art. I mentioned one artist out of ALL of modern art that didn't impress me. That's not hypocritical. That's a single opinion.
lmmmr 0
I'm sorry, didnt mean to bash your art, simply a difference of opinion.You shared yours, I shared mine. No offense intended.
girl_in_question 0
Seriously! As I said earlier, art isn't just painting and drawing anymore. Hasn't been for almost a hundred years!! People need to wake up!
Winkyburger 0
People who make blanket statements like "modern art sucks" generally seem to be loserish people who will go nuts over some hack painting their favorite video game character.