Fine Art Schools

In the Uk it is the Slade, in France the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. What is the best in the whole world?

Many, many great artists list Art Student's League of NY on their resumes . . .

Early instructors included William Merritt Chase, J. Alden Weir, Walter Shirlaw, Frederick Dielman, John H. Twachtman, Kenyon Cox, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Frank Duveneck, Thomas W. Dewing and Arthur Wesley Dow. Since those early days, scores of other well-known artists have been instructors or lecturers: Frank Vincent DuMond, George Bridgman and Kenneth Hayes Miller among them. Their students became the well-known professionals of another generation and their legacy continues into the 21st century.

Many famous artists who have shaped the vocabulary of art worldwide have been instructors, lecturers and students at the League. They include, among many others, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Barnett Newman, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Man Ray, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Louise Nevelson, Reginald Marsh, Romare Bearden, Red Grooms, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Ben Shahn and Cy Twombly.

http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/history.html

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I am trying out for a couple of arts schools in miami florida (New World, Coral Reef), and wanted to know if there were any good monlogues for auditions, for teen females. The monologue must be from a PUBLISHED PLAY! If anyone had any suggestions or has gone through the experience please let me know!

This one always served me well in auditions:

http://www.actorpoint.com/free_monologues/k.html

My brother is a classical musician.

Many of my friends would never dream of going to an opera, ballet or orchestral concert. They feel it is an exclusive world, poulated by snobs and elitists where they do not belong.

They would much prefer a film or a rock concert which they feel is more inclusive and they can relate to.

Sadly, from what I have seen of the classical arts world there are many very wealthy snobby, elitist types from public school backgrounds who beleive it should be kept very "exclusive". Although I also know really nice down to earth classical musicians.

By contrast most of the rock musicians I know are very working class, self-taught and very down to earth. They beleive that anyone can do what they do, with hard work and passion, while in the classical world its all about "technique" and "oh but you don't have the TALENT dahling!"

I enjoy both classical and rock music btw.

Whats your view?

Elitism poor and simple. I also think people feel intimidated when they go. A friend of mine studied classic music and is such a snob when it comes to rock. Always talking bout lack of chord structure and poor singing technique.

With school education becoming more and more geared to providing successful career opportunities in an increasingly competitive world, arts such as music, dance, painting and theatre seem to be disappearing from school curriculum and syllabi. What can we do to cure this deficiency?
YAHOO! ANSWERS staff notice: This is really Shubha Mudgal, the classical singer and performer.

As a professional painter and part time studio art college instructor, I find that the arts are incredibly important to opening the mind to all kinds of subjects, not just art. We don't value intuitive knowledge in our culture. It is this intuitive intelligence that helps scientists, inventors, engineers, researchers, theorists, philosophers, mathmeticians, artists and doctors make very important decisions and finds in their fields. In this way, art and the processes that are learned in all art forms touch all professions. Art in all forms helps open us up to those intuitive processes. I think that the arts are some of the most important aspects of education.
To cure this deficiency in our education system we simply need to offer more classes, opportunities for students to participate in the arts, and allow students to bring these arts out into the community. But we can't do this when schools are constantly cutting funding to the arts. I believe that the arts should be more integrated into an overall liberal arts curriculum from Kindergarten thru college. To do this we need a commitment from school districts, politicians, parents and educators to do this. We need an allocation of some of the tax dollars that go to education to fund art education. I also think a public relations campaign on a national level that spells out the benefits of arts in our education system would help get the public behind it. It would have to be on the level of how it is not only beneficial in and of itself, but how art touches all of our lives. How it is important not only for personal expression but for human communication. And, how learning and practicing an art form is great for learning other subjects and making break throughs in those professions. Afterall, Einstein played the violin beautifully.

I'm doing an art project on Salvador Dali and on some websites, he went to a school called Municipal Drawing School. The websites don't tell where (or at least the ones I went to).

In a Catalan town of Fugueras, near Barcelona, Northern Spain.