FIRST PODCAST & FIRST BONUS FEATURE: Art in Appalachia.

OUR FIRST PODCAST
A new visual version with a new slide show at the end; 
to the right is the Downloadable Podcast version.

Click the image to play 2-ReaL  Vol. 1  No. 1  "There is a Void: Drawing",

There is a Void. Neo-Modernists run art academia and have effectively gotten rid of painting and drawing from most art school and university art department curricula. Museums host show after show of faceless readymades that lack any compelling visual content, and almost never contemporary realist painting and drawing. It's time to fight back.

Click on the image to play 2-ReaL  Vol. 1 - No. 1  Bonus Feature.  It's Funny.  A new visual version with a new slide show at the end.

DO ART SCHOOLS STILL TEACH LIFE DRAWING?

DO ART SCHOOLS STILL TEACH LIFE DRAWING?

I looked up what are considered to be the top rated art schools and/or university art departments in the US and what their Drawing departments are like. Yes, they teach "drawing". Life drawing? Not so much. Check it out if you want to know more. Here are a couple of links.

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-art/

https://www.risd.edu/academics/painting/courses/

HERE IS WHAT DRAWING IS OFFERED AT RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD) FOR THEIR BATCHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN PAINTING:

The red-framed box is below the rest of the above, but it is not mis-placed as Graduate Drawing is part of the BFA program in Painting.

During the first year “Foundation” program at RISD, there is also no life drawing.

The website says:

Three core studios

Studio | Drawing

At RISD students pursue drawing as both a powerful way to investigate the world and an essential activity intrinsic to art and design practice. The studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities in which to investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation and the translation of the observable world.

Studio | Design

In this studio, students explore how to organize visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and convey meaningful messages through objects, spaces and experiences.

Studio | Spatial Dynamics

This studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena considers force—the consequence of energy—and its effect on structure. Students explore physical, spatial and temporal phenomena through a range of analogue and digital processes.