Comments on: Film: Art School Confidential

By: Respecting your audience as an artist « The Aesthetic Elevator

Respecting your audience as an artist « The Aesthetic Elevator — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:27:17 +0000

[...] out exactly why this mentality seems so prevalent among artists (though if we want we could use Art School Confidential’s suggestions), but ever since my wife pointed it out — let’s all be grateful for [...]

By: Yale student’s miscarriage installation/performance « The Aesthetic Elevator

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:38:53 +0000

[...] getting away with basically anything and everything, as blatantly alluded to in the recent film Art School Confidential. “Given the choice of this arduous training or the chance to proceed immediately to the [...]

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:35:08 +0000

# of us who went to art schools between the 60s and 80s went to see Art School Confidential and found it to be too easy a take on the experience of going to art school, right down to the cliche-d students and instructors and bons mots from the lips of aspiring and successfu; artists as shown in the film . My own experiences are more highly idiosyncratic and much more memorable.
I like your review on it, though, and feel the general population who have little experience with art school will take away from this movie some rather strange and romantic notions. That is how the media both flattens and exaggerates ideas!