I found myself thinking about art when I was younger. When I was little they would always just say draw whatever you want it doesn't matter just do something. Now that I'm older there are more rules. There's restrictions as to what I have to create and what I can use to create my art. Also there is more people to think about. When I was little I made my "art" to please me, I made what I liked, now they tell me that I have to think about my audience and what they like and what they want to see. Whatever happened to artists showing the world what they feel and see through their eyes? Is that lost? Anyway I was just thinking about that and they fact that art was so simple when I was younger and now it is no longer simple, it seems to me that as you learn more about something the more complicated that something becomes.
--Laura--
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You have made some excellent points about how art becomes more complex as we get older. I would say that complexity extends over ourselves & everything we experience and learn about. I do believe that it matters alot that you as an artist express yourself and authenticity as you see fit. There is, in my mind, no other way to be creatively true. The restrictions and specifications we are dealing with in school serve simply to increase our personal and world awareness so that when we are really wanting to express something specific we have more tools at our disposal and understand the art "language" we are using. With all the tools and information at our disposal, we then can make better informed decisions while still enjoying the pleasure of doing what pleases us. What a great discussion this would make!
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