[Jewelry making - Article 00884] - Re: [Orchid] BFA/MFA Vs technical training

[John Donivan]

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>     there are years of study of art history, design, and studio
>     disciplines, and also, in the old days, these fine 

    My Mother (GRHS) "My kids are going to have some culture if it kills
    them!!" Even though I am a factory-trained, classically oriented
    jeweler, people often say, Ask John, he's the artist. I paint, 
sculpt,
    all sorts of things. This is a round about way of saying that I don't
    have ANY formal training in art - well, a semester of art history...
    No BFA, no MFA. But I can completely relate to what David says, 
above.
    There was a most excellent post on this thread - I'm sorry, I lost
    track of it and the author, equating jewelry with music, which is the
    most accurate analogy, I think. Music theory is called "Harmony", for
    those who don't know. Harmony teaches you "harmony" - which notes
    sound good together, and also everything else known about music.
    Leonard Bernstein was a PhD in harmony (figuratively). But that's not
    the same as playing the cello. To play the cello, you get a cello,
    and sit down with it and scrape away till GOOD sounds come out of it,
    which might take awhile. All the harmony courses in the world aren't
    going to teach you to play the cello - all the "cello-theory" classes
    aren't going to do it, the only thing that will do it is sitting down
    with that cello. On the other hand, as David points out, trying to
    play the cello with no knowlege of harmony will also get you nowhere
    fast. There are plenty of people who scrape away blindly making
    jewelry, but without some sense of design theories and composition 
and
    color, and etc. it's a long road they travel. Me, I don't have and
    MFA. But our book collection long ago crossed the line from "book
    collection" into library.. 

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