[coffeemig]

I’m not in architecture, but I am a painter and I took university courses on it (my degree is in advertising, but I was good enough at drawing that the art profs let me run with the seniors in a couple upper level classes).

They are not teaching aesthetics any more. They threw away the casts and teach ‘concept’. Students aren’t taught how to approach Michelangelo’s David, they’re taught how to approach Duchamp’s fountain. I heard a professor espouse that Twombly was some enormous departure from Pollock, an artistic revolution as great a distance as Picasso from Velasquez.

Twombly: https://www.google.com/search?q=cy+twombly&client=safari&hl=...

Pollock: https://www.google.com/search?q=jackson+pollock&client=safar...

The emperor has no clothes.