Quick rant on the fine arts

So what's been bothering me in a lifetime of trying to re-educate most artists, is that the modern idea of fine arts makes a disaster of what art really is. The main point of real art is not aesthetic appearance or how attractive it is, it's the emotion behind it, it's the story behind it, and what the artist thinks when they look at it. If your making art just for marketability and attracting eyes, your not making art period.

Art is abtracted communication. Dancing is art, artistic gymnastics is art, music is art, and painting, sculpting, drawing, etc is also. This applies only if your making it to communicate a message, depict a feeling, tell a story, etc... Art is a message. I don't mean to sound like a gypsy/hipster/snob to non-artists and others, but the point is that once your creating an image for the purpose of marketing, though force, only impressing people, and disregarding your own ideas and creativity, and begin religiously following "composition", "rhetoric", "form", and in some cases even "theory" your sacrificing something that would have made your art much much more valuable, relateable, and devouring the emotional value. Form, theory, composition, etc... they're all great to use, as they help guide or improve your ability to express yourself, but once you think they're actual rules, the figurative, emotional, and often even the economical value of whatever your doing becomes torn to shreds.

The best artists out there are those of people who taught themselves purely on their own. Not because of discipline, but because they learned creative independence, something that gets lost in the front lines of being trained in rhetoric.

The independent thought lets the artist realize "I can do what I want. I can make what I want how I want, and whoever tells me my work is worth less because it's image or sound isn't purely glorified is an absolute idiot, because my work is MY OWN." Composition, form, and theory are only structure. They can help depict more realistically, help emphasize emotional connection, and even I practice it, but never let it sacrifice the personal worth of your work. I'm not saying all of your work has to be deep, but art is something to interpret, not carry bounds. There is no "set" way to depict anything. There are methods, but no rules.

Art is communicational anarchy.

Okay. Done.