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KharBevNor:
Thought so. You organise your art education a tad different over there it would seem.

salada:
I remember the first time i saw some of Rothko's work for the first time, in a retrospective while I was travelling in Spain a few years ago. Absolutely floored me. I mean, I thought his stuff was kind of cool looking at it in books/slides/etc, but to actually experience the work firsthand is a completely different thing. Completely overwhelming, all-consuming stuff. I mean, I haven?t studied "fine art" art in ages (In my 4th year of a graphic design/international studies degree) and was never much chop at history, but all that aside, seeing Rothko?s stuff in person completey changed the way I think about/look at non-representational art.

Too boozed up & tired to write more. Plus I?m on a German keyboard. There?s a y where the z should be and the punctuation is just impossible. Just wanted to add my 2c.

ekmesnz:
Right on, salada. I don't know if it is still up, but there's a dim room full of Rothkos at the Tate that are AMAZING.

I'd be interested to know, KharBevNor, what the differences you see are. My brother studies Art History among other things in the UK and he doesn't like it too much.

KharBevNor:
Well, for a start, here, fine art here is, as far as I'm aware (and I was planning to do it at BA stage for a month) to be a lot more narrow than what: you'd do a theatre studies or design for theatre degree or music performance or whatnot for most of those things you mentioned, but there is a certain amount of cross-over into other areas of traditional art and media (the most obvious being that fine-art encompasses things like sculpture, video art, performance art and, of course, installations and interventions). I'm reasonably certain you can't do a specific degree in, for example, performance art, though places like Glasgow offer a lot of mickey mouse degrees like 'environmental art' that probably cover that. Most British art education seems to take a quite firm basis from a Bauhaus-derived foundation course (try getting in to anywhere half decent without a foundation degree. Just about possible if you're picasso mark 2. Even then Brighton would probably have objections.) So it's quite well divided into the five 'key areas' of 3D, graphics and design, fine art, lens based media and textiles and fashion. Of course, as I said, you get a lot of crossover, but the degrees themselves tend to stay together in those sort of groups, as it were, apart from obvious exceptions like fashion illustration.

TheFuriousWombat:
generally i can appreciate pretty much anything. very abstract can and often is very very good and far more interesting than photo realistic still lifes. the only piece i can think of that's "abstract" that i don't appreciate is andy warhol's 'brillio pad' box. mainly b/c it's just that, an empty box of brillo pads, that he did nothing to. it's a box. in a display case. not a big fan.

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