From the artist friends vasts without at least vocational education ever met several types of gifted people by nature.
Those that have succeeded in a realistic landscape for a good average level, but on the composition of the watch without pain is impossible.
One artist I know who originally with a cold head oriented to the U.S. commercial galleries. Such amazing типаж artist-businessman. Fully achieved what he wanted. I think that neither is inferior to the artist with the formation, and part-commerce by far.
The most interesting, those who are not trying to tune out the professional art and works in the naive.
But in general, the school - is the base, without her in the fine arts, at least, there is a chance for units. But in the creative destiny of all the school decides not to, and continuous self-improvement and self, an eternal search, the eternal desire
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And for modern art, I think art education is not required. Would be able to generate ideas and a desire to create. On the contrary, at the intersection of education on modern art and education in other areas may have something more interesting, without rehashing.