Teaching ART. Drawing future

The “Art cannot be Taught” extract basically says the same thing could be seen in its name. Gustave Courbet literally says every artist should be his own teacher, saying art can’t be taught by others but could be learned by yourself. He argues this main statement, saying art is individual and depends on our own experience, knowledge, and interests. Also, he says an artist must and could draw only something related to the time he lives in because art is representing reality. Even history art must represent historical moments from the time the artist lives in.

Is it possible to teach others to make art? Well yeah, it is, in some way. It is easier to imagine that now, because nowadays there is lots of knowledge, so the artist has an opportunity to choose and to combine. So it is possible to gain some kind of basic knowledge’s, like perspective, anatomy, or different techniques with different materials. Yet, it is still not teaching how to make art, it is more about how to reach goals you as an artist have, and what do you need to know to be able to create the idea you have. Freedom of choosing gives the artist an opportunity to choose the teacher, and what is he interested in, so he could be taught how to make art better. Better in his way.

Does art really depend on the artist’s personality? It truly does. It is not a secret for anyone, the artist represents himself in all of his drawings. Maybe a little, just a tiny piece of the creator in the creation, but it would be inside there. Even with different people drawing the same thing in a similar style, we would find out how different the arts are. And it is not even mentioning the difference in style, the way of creating (somebody might do a sculpture instead of a drawing), and objects an artist would choose by themselves while making art. Each step in making artwork is individual, so it makes the artworks special by itself, as a piece the artist decided to make.

Should art be made only about the time the human lives in? No, it should not. But looking deeper in that, it would be anyways. Of course, there is no sense in forbidding artist to draw past or future. But the point is, by creating it, an artist would do art, representing the time he lives in. Not just because of creating anything in a specific time period, but because of the time artist lives in makes the influence on his past understanding and future imagining. Something from what’ve been happing in past would be newer drawn today because we don’t have any knowledge saved till now, it even ever happened. And the way we see the future depends on the things we see now. People riding on horses wouldn’t think about flying cars, because there even were no cars in their time, to imagine them fly. So it is important for an artist to make art about a different time period. To save the history we have, and to let the future people make fun of our suggestions for the future.