“If Hitler had gotten into the Arts Academy, or some other art school, would he have turned out the way he did?”
I used to hear a mere kid in the NYC subways playing empty plastic paint drums, and he started out already phenomenal at 12, but by the time he hit 20 he was awesome, and handsome as all hell, his hands moving in a blur over his paint drums, and talking about how he’s got a scholarship to a music academy, one of the big ones.
Hitler would have made it in art school, even with little or no talent, and he could have just splashed some sh!t on canvas and been called Avant Garde. Some of these so-called artists, had circumstances been different, might have become Hitlers. Their world-view’s already offensive enough.
“Hitler would have made it in art school, even with little or no talent, and he could have just splashed some sh!t on canvas and been called Avant Garde.”
Not quite, certainly not in that day and age. You still had to prove you could master the fundamentals to graduate from an art school. You had to learn the rules before you could break the rules, which is as it should be with art, except perhaps for those few rare genius savants who seem to grasp all the rules intuitively.