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The Truth about Art and GPA |
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An interesting topic was brought up by a reply to another person's comment on abstract art pieces:
"Yeah, it gets completely outrageous.
One pic I saw was just a teal background with white streaks. And it gets hung up in one of the freaking country's best museums."
My Response:
The funny part is that those pieces are representative of the idea that there are no boundaries to what Art may be and that Art is nothing more than the translation of nonphysical items such as thoughts, ideas, emotions, whims, thought patterns, reflex, music, attitude, chaos, Humanity, and even Nothingness into physically viewable mediums. It's that deep!
As a consequence, part of the value of an Art piece comes from the viewer's ability to read/understand the piece and the nonphysical items it is attempting to convey.
Lol... it's like how a block of text in Latin can be useless garbage to one person, but enlightening stuff to another.
8P I used to mock pieces like that, but it made sense after a while lolol -- people should actually appreciate those pieces simply because of the fact that they're what helped other styles become recognized/accepted by the Art world.
In other words, we'd be drawing the same old stuff and no new ideas would be generated if none of these "silly"/"pointless" pieces were made... simply because they wouldn't be considered Art as it doesn't fall under the "strict" requirements that would define it as such.
If anything is to be gained from Art appreciation classes, it should be the fact that Art has gone a long way to get out of boxes and chains and actually be considered akin to Nature (limitless and unrestrained).
The "nonsense" pieces hanging in the "famous"/"best" museums serve as reminders of this idea!
XD Lol, sorry for the random rant... but it's true; it gets very tiring to keep drawing people after a while and sometimes scribbling up a bunch of nonsense helps generate some new ideas as well as interesting comments/interpretations. Also... :Z it makes me sad when people don't recognize some of my art pieces as Art just because it looks simple and nothing like a Da Vinci or a Renoir (very realistic pieces with solid, easily recognizable and ordinary forms and etc).
On GPA...
GPA is silly... no one actually takes them seriously or applies a heavy focus on them when it comes to employment. Only huge businesses use them for anything (applicant filtering), but even then there's ways to easily get around that and they often only use them when applicant inflow is expected to be large.
Also, only extremely low and high GPA's are looked at:
Low GPA's (0-1.5) = the person is questionable and there may be a story behind why their GPA is so so low. Who knows, they may actually be a genius whose intellect simply doesn't conform to rigid standards and methods imployed in educational institutions (AKA bad test takers, rebellious kids, free thinkers... etc)
High GPA (3.5-4.0)= this person may be a shut-in with no life and may be obnoxious to be around with OR a person who did nothing but regurgitate information and not necessarily learned anything and is incapable of using the information for REAL-WORLD applications OR a pompous p***k that may end up just being an a*****e to everyone and take my job as the employer.
Hohoho, this means that a person with a 2.0-3.0 GPA can easily walk away with a job that a 3.5-4.0 person with numerous titles and degrees also applied for... simply because they could apply knowledge given to them in actual real-world scenarios, was easy to get along with, and was just an overall awesome/nice person with much potential to become a friend.
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icon_pirate.gif Moral of the story:
GPA is stupid, don't let it get to your head as the one and only thing that defines you in the job market. Petty numbers cannot accurately represent skill, experience, personality, intent, and attitude.
After graduation and the first job... no one even looks at GPA.
That's how useless it is. College is about honing one's Human Capital, not GPA.
Remember, GPA = Grossly Perverted Assumption.
 Ethereal Darkness · Mon Apr 11, 2011 @ 11:02am · 0 Comments |
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