When Life Bites Back (Artist Style)

I come from a family with a long line of artists, especially on my mom's side. I really LOVE art. I love to create, to be inspired to let my imagination go to places that I know do not exist in reality. With art, I love to make my own mark in the world. However, the gift of art also has a curse that goes along with it. It's called the "Artist Mentality". I'm sure that when you go out into the world, you meet two types of people. Type A personality and Type B. Type A is usually the personality that is more left-brained. I believe these people to be neurotic and perfectionists. These people know what they want in life. If they can finish college when they barely graduated from kindergarten to the first grade, they would. Type B personalities are different. They are stereotyped as being slackers, lazy, drifting as though they are in a small life boat in a huge sea called life. I used to be the first one in middle and highschool, but when I became an adult, it seemed as though my personality had a paradigm shift. My sense of curiosity and discovery consumes every fiber of my being. The fact that I don't make decisions and stick to them makes me what they call an "artist".

Art is one of those degrees in school that do not really have a clear path. One can have an art degree and decide to be a filmmaker, architect, or even a fine artist. These days, a college degree is like that extra money that you found in your pocket after you didn't have enough change a few days ago to tip the waitor at a restaurant. It's there, and it can take you anywhere, and you can only do so much with it. You can spend that little change on whatever. It's really hard to tell someone with an artist mentality what he/she can or can't do with his or extra change.

Some are reading this as will ask what I'm getting to. Today, I realized that I DO NOT like digital media as an artform. I detest it. Andy Warhol pushed the buttons when he calls blown up versions of life objects art. Duchamp and Oldenburg were out of their minds when they call simple objects art. The art world was once this place where the elite of society can basque into someone's imagination and pay millions to have a piece of someone. From my experience in school, it seems like the art here is more about decoration and calling anything art. So, I retire digital media completely. I'll use photoshop to scale images for my life-size paintings of media images. I would go as far as to say that I do not criticize Warhol or Duchamp. I inspire to be somewhat like Warhol, because his art does to this day hold a mirror to the face of what was pop culture in the sixties and what is now history of a turbulent era. If I kept this class, I would have been closer to finishing my art degree, but because I rather feel like I really created something that can be real, rather than abstraction, I'll continue my path in drawing(possibly painting/sculpting) and philosophy. I'll be so happy when I finish my degree. I should talk to someone about getting a liberal studies degree, instead. I hope that I grow out of this artist mentality, because everyday I'm closer to being 30.