TRADITIONAL vs. CONCEPTUAL art schools?

Atana
Thu, 29 May 2008 00:06:07 +0000

Conceptual art programs usually tend to be those which emphasize a fair amount of performance art, installations, and overtly political art. And at times if one is outside their various social agendas and perceptions it can be a difficult fit. The advantage is that these tend to be pretty high energy programs with a fair amount of freedom of expression. But, sometimes what’s learned there is of little application outside that venue…sort of the problem of the institutionalized avant garde.

Traditional schools tend to emphasize technical aspects, formalist modes of art history, and usually assess work premised on standards of execution. The dilemma with these is they can be a little stifling, and if one isn’t willing to knuckle down and really work on the technique theories aspects its very easy to fall behind quickly and terminally.

If your going into illustration or graphics you might be better served by a more traditional school insofar as you’ll get more of the tech/design theory aspects.
And that will be more what the gateway employers are likely to want most. In general for gateway jobs you’ll be doing the nuts and bolts work first.

And modernism, not really in either modernism is a school of art going back a generation. And in design its about dead…