You don’t need to go to school to learn art. Did Van Gogh have to go to Art School?
You either got it or you don’t.
I know I don’t.
The best I can manage are stick people.
Being partly color blind doesn’t help.
Not exactly true.
Like most things back in the day, they apprenticed for a while. So, very few people went to college. But I digress.
A formal art education is a lot more than just sitting in a room painting.
For example, a graduate level course in ceramic glazing is as much a chemistry course as it is an art course.
I don’t disagree with the ultimate outcome—jobs are scarce and the aspect of being a starving artist is real. But formal art education goes back centuries.