illustration!!!!!!!
a wee bit envious.... i'll get over it......
Since it was my own darn fault!
: (
I
had a choice between 2 schools back in 1970. Maybe 3.
1> The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art:
very prestigious Engineering, Science, Archtitecture school; but I got the opinion that it
wasn't as pretigious in the Art section.
Looking back now I think I was
probably wrong-o as we had some Major Artists teachng there: Poons, Wolf Kahn
ghads cant remmeber anyone else at the moment (will look up!) And my Sculpture teacher was one of the pioneers in using plastics in Sculture!
And we in my Lithography Printing (I think that's
not quite the name for it) we went to a Printing Shop who did among other things books and pamphlets for The Met (Musuem)! Either in hid class another we got to visit Herb Lubalin's Typepography Design Studio!
Also
free tuition wehad to pay back then about a student fee of ?150$ plus our supplies. It was also fully accreditied as a College which my dad kept on about being a prestgious chool easier to get work etc. He went there for a whie, and one of my aunt/uncle pars went there - he for engineering or science she for art.
>2 The School of Visual Arts: This was a
?non-accreditied so not a college back then Art School; illustration, Cartooning, Graphic Design, ?Photography, and some Fine Arts. But it turned out a lot of good to excellent peopel in the commercia art field!
Later on it restructured, and added other clsses so I think it's a fully accreddited college now thought it still call itself by it's old name.
I (was on a list after whoever first turned them down) was offered a full scholarship !!!
I love/d sculpture, drawing, painting and
illustration. The problem was I was in the the middle at that point in my life on the continium of being between beng hip and square.
Visiting the schools; SVA looked like all hip teens, while Cooper seemed to be more of a mix. So beween the preisteige factor, and the mix of kinds of students I picked Cooper.
I remember bout 5 years later when I was freelancing for a Assisant Art Director friend at
Schoolastic Magazines as his 2 weeks/month Paste/Up & Mechanicals person with a bit pf Design thrown in...... he says to me ... "I wish I had gone to SVA" ....I said...."yeah, me, too." LE Sigh. But considering my psychological state at the time maybe I woud have flunked out.
I might have been accepted at Pratt Art School , too. Not sure. But
no scholarship there, and my parents couldn't afford it.
I had 2 great Art History classes at Art School. I also went to Art HS which I had
mostly ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzFEST Art History Classes !
LOL
Good luck on your assignments!!!
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