art- education

[Jajwuth]

Do you have to take formal art training to do sculpture.
Can you do it and sell it without the training.
Comments?
Al

[Tre Mani Sculpting]

I can only speak from my own expereince. I have had no formal training
and have been sculpting for less than a year. My work is currently
selling in three locations, and one is a New York Gallery. I also have
an on-line gallery (www.tremani.com). Anything is possible! Believe in
your work. Good luck.

[fra...@pe.net]

On 22 Jul 1999 13:25:38 GMT, jaj...@aol.com (Jajwuth) wrote:

>Do you have to take formal art training to do sculpture.
>Can you do it and sell it without the training.
>Comments?

Let your heart, your hand, your eyes, do the work until you are
pleased with the results.

Education can help or hinder depending how you use it....

Francoise
http://www.pe.net/~franou/index.html

[Debi Smith]

hey jajwuth.........sculptures sell with or without formal training. I have
sold my art without formal training as well as with it. I am currently
getting my degree in fine art with my discipline in sculpting. The benefits
of formal training for me, has been to expand on my network within the art
community and frankly, u can teach and old dog new tricks!! Good luck!!

Debi

[Lauri.L.]

In article <19990722092538...@ngol08.aol.com>,

jaj...@aol.com (Jajwuth) wrote:
> Do you have to take formal art training to do sculpture.
> Can you do it and sell it without the training.
> Comments?

> Al

If you look f.ex Andrew Werby's site, you see that sculpture
involves a variety or techniques, which may take more than a lifetime
to learn the hard way. On the other hand, you may want to specialize
in one technique only.

The non-technical side. We all have a personal opinion
what we regard as art, and what we want to do.
In most cases it is beneficial to be open to
different impulses, and schools are good
places to get contacts and conversations.
If that is not possibe, try to hang in this NG
and visit as much exhibitions as possible.

Finally your question about selling. It is
a special skill itself. First you have to decide
if you want to spend most of time producing
saleable stuff. That is what most professional
artists have to do.
Maybe you rather make art as s you like,
stay amaterur or semiamateur
and earn your bread elsewhere. This has been
my choice.

- lauri
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