art school confidential

[dirtytomato]

I went to see Art School Confidential this past weekend and thought it was alright. Perhaps I was anticipating it the storyline to be as great as Ghost World, but it fell short. The dialogue was great, in fact, I'm sure many of you can relate to the art class experience, especially the critiques. <spoiler>I couldn't help but bust up laughing when the art professor explained how it had taken him 20 or so years to get to his current method of painting...</spoiler> it reminded me of the way my professors have explained work by Mondriaan, Rothko, and Newman (or rather justified it). Eno was my favorite though, he reminded me of myself through my 2-d composition class this past semester.

What did you guys think?

[Sean]

Started off loving it, but was disappointed by the second half....or at least by the last third. Having not known what to expect going in, I was enjoying the initial comedy, which was exactly what set me up to be let down by the total genre-twist it took by the end.

On a personal level though, I loved seeing how dead-on accurate they were in their portrayal of art school. I brought my wife to it mainly so she could see what my life was like for a few years back in the early 90's when I was at CalArts, and a few years before that when I took summer classes at Pratt. She came out saying she had enjoyed the way they caricatured all the typical art school students, and I told her they weren't actually caricatures. I think she got a much deeper understanding of what it was like because of this film.

[Ally]

On a personal level though, I loved seeing how dead-on accurate they were in their portrayal of art school. I brought my wife to it mainly so she could see what my life was like for a few years back in the early 90's when I was at CalArts, and a few years before that when I took summer classes at Pratt. She came out saying she had enjoyed the way they caricatured all the typical art school students, and I told her they weren't actually caricatures. I think she got a much deeper understanding of what it was like because of this film.

Art students are the main reason I don't go the clubs at the Art School here all that often..