You know I am an artist as well and I totally get where you are coming from. You are not the only one who feels this way. I have met a lot of talented artists who feel just like you do. You see the people running the art community think everything should have a meaning to it.
Not everyone who paints/draws a picture had a meaning to it though. Sometimes people just felt like making the picture. You don't need to have any real meaning to your art. Sometimes you just feel like doing it.
Your art might yes reflect you as a personality as well as showing your style but art is really just something you do. A truly talented artist does art but that does not mean they really thought about the art. People get angry at "Andy Warhol" and while like most artists I think he was a complete idiot and not a real artist he had something right.
Why did you make a soup can "I like soup" and that response angered people. However really its the truth. Sometimes you draw a dog "Because you like dogs" or "You felt like drawing a dog". Not everything has some deeper meaning to it.
That is what is great about art. You just do it. Art is not something you really have to think about. Why writing is a lot more complicated. You have to think when you write you really do not have to put a ton of thought into what your picture means. sometimes you just draw what you see.
I could tell you "Draw this statue" and you could draw the statue perfectly. Now did that mean that picture means anything? No! you were simply following instructions.
Is it normal that I think majoring in Art is Bullshit?
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You know I am an artist as well and I totally get where you are coming from. You are not the only one who feels this way. I have met a lot of talented artists who feel just like you do. You see the people running the art community think everything should have a meaning to it.
Not everyone who paints/draws a picture had a meaning to it though. Sometimes people just felt like making the picture. You don't need to have any real meaning to your art. Sometimes you just feel like doing it.
Your art might yes reflect you as a personality as well as showing your style but art is really just something you do. A truly talented artist does art but that does not mean they really thought about the art. People get angry at "Andy Warhol" and while like most artists I think he was a complete idiot and not a real artist he had something right.
Why did you make a soup can "I like soup" and that response angered people. However really its the truth. Sometimes you draw a dog "Because you like dogs" or "You felt like drawing a dog". Not everything has some deeper meaning to it.
That is what is great about art. You just do it. Art is not something you really have to think about. Why writing is a lot more complicated. You have to think when you write you really do not have to put a ton of thought into what your picture means. sometimes you just draw what you see.
I could tell you "Draw this statue" and you could draw the statue perfectly. Now did that mean that picture means anything? No! you were simply following instructions.