art students -- describe some of your peers' lamest artworks

Before I tell my story, I must admit that the art building at my school had the wittiest and most creative graffiti in the bathrooms.

Anyhow, Some girl in one of my classes made plaster-strip casts of her arms and legs, arranged them so that they appeared to belong to someone sitting on a toilet with a cigarette in one hand. I have no idea what that was about.

I've also had critiques where people read more into my stuff than I ever intended. Sometimes it's just a picture.

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I had a project in Color Theory that we had to show emphasis. So everyone did pretty elaborate pieces. This one girl had painted an entire city scene with a green beetle that stood out amongst the pale white buildings. And then this guy comes in twenty minutes late and puts up his. It's just a yellow circle on a red canvas. Nobody liked it -- except the art teacher.

"Well," she said, "it does show emphasis, does it not?"

Everyone grudgingly agreed that it did, even though he spent maybe five minutes on it, while everyone else spent several hours on theirs.

I later found out he got an A. Art can be such a bitch.

I had to take a class called "Form Study" as a requirement. My final assignment was to make a portable structure that could be set up in 15 minutes at most. One person comes in with just a sleeping bag and a blanket which he pinned to the wall creating a small canopy. It was such a cop-out, but he backed it up by saying, "What? You never built a fort as a kid?" He adamantly tried to defend himself until the teacher said, "Raise your hand if you think [said person] is full of *beep* Good times.

I think this one is the lamest of all. Our assignment in Graphic Art was to fill a jar of stuff that reflects ourselves, and then design a lable for it that could describe everything in the jar in under 4 words (lame project to begin with...I know). Our Russian exchange student (cocky little $hit) put his passport in there and one piece of Russian currency, and his lable said "Ilya" (his name). When he didn't get a good grade, he blew up and started going on in Russian, and then said in terrible English, "You all have insects up your anus! You wouldn't know talent if it bit you on the finger!"
He even left the school...went back to Russia. Pretty extreme, but "whatever floats his goat" as he says.

"When life give you lemmons, squirt them in someones eyes."

I don't have a story, but I just wanted to say that this is one of the most interesting and worthwhile threads I've seen in a while!

There is some blue sky, let us chase it! ~Sense and Sensibility

Ha, all of these are so great.

ONe time this girl was painting a piece of a fence and put like barbed wire and nails all in it, and red paint around the nails and everyone was like "COOL! IT LOOKS SO TIM BURTON!" And I was like "If it looks so Tim Burton, then is obviously not very creative! and everyone ignored me.

Bastards.

yeah i'm an art student that stuff is everywhere, it's why i'm such a bad student, i can't take anything seriously

i had a drawing mid-term, the drawing was supposed to have at least 3-4 hours of work put into it... me, i forgot that it was the mid-term, and for some reason thought it was just another homework assignment, so an hour before class i draw two things for 30 minutes... come class time i walk in and *beep* my pants, realizing it was the mid-term and all these really good looking drawings everybody else had, i put mine up, felt like walking out of the class just to get away *BUT* when the teacher gets to mine he LOVES it, and spends the most amount of time on it... i *beep* some justification because i see the *foolish* light, and end up getting a B!

not the first time that has happened to me, happens a lot, hence why i can't take school seriously

in the gallery we get all sorts of weird stuff, most of the stuff is abstract stuff that has no meaning whatsoever, one was a piece of paper covered in graphite framed with an antique frame... yeah, that's BS, most of the stuff is the same... one guy started a project 18 months ago where he took degrading paint and made a cube of paint for each month then put them all up on the wall, the earliest ones slowly falling apart the latest ones still perfect... interesting, i guess?

some stuff focused on barbie dolls and... yeah... one guy had an interesting style, which is all he focused on, the style, so i commend him on not trying to be pretentious, i think he ended up making a buttload of money on his paintings... then another piece of work, pieces of paper kids from different ages drew on with a sharpie, that's it, no work from the artist... what's more all of these had some kind of social or personal commentary...

besides peers though, we had some professors display work... one had a huge video of out-of-focus models doing stuff, and the soundtrack was also muffled... and recently somebody took a bathtub and filled it with dirt, and that was it...

then outside of class, a relative took me to an improv dance thing, some guy says random things into a microphone, a guy plays a guitar, a guy plays drums, and two dancers attempt to jump around like they're on LSD occasionally fiddling with the lights for 30 minutes... what the hell?

it's all a little too much for me, makes me want to just become a biology or engineering major or something...