Why people think art majors are douche bags

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(note: my god damn computer doesn't add links; so if you can't find this story, it is about an art exhibition where the guy who put together the show added paintings by a 22 month old and when he found out the "artists" age, left the pieces in the exhibit....yadda yadda yadda. That is the less than cliff notes version.)

I suggest you take a peak at the article above before you read what follows. If not you can play along anyway:  (note:  In this blog entry when I write "you"I am  referring to all you art class hipsters)

I like art, I enjoy the museum. It is fun to look at pictures and have an opinion and it is easy. That is, it's easy unless you are too cool for the room. Your clothes are dumb, you are not unique. You look and act like all the other douches in your class. I have seen your glasses before: they are on the person right next to you. But just cause you take or have taken an art class doesn't mean you know more about a painting then anyone else. For example what was that 2 year old kid thinking...let's get inside the head of an artiste:
momma ppppppppbb, paint, elmo wed, this black, yeyyow sponge bob. i likepaint--ing. I bet it was something like that. I don't think the child in that circumstance was feeling sad about missing Sesame Street, or not being fed or whatever makes a 22 month old sad ( I also realize the child was a European of some sort but it really could be any child, and  I am not sure what the kiddies grow up with over there.). Yet there goes the fellow who put together that art show  coming up with all this b.s. how a child could have had a thought process and could be asian influenced, with dark on dark or whatever crap he was spewing.
Guess what pal. It is a piece of paper with paint on it. That is actually what all paintings are (or similar to that). Every once in a while something awesome comes from nowhere. Art can be a perfect storm of randomness. It can be anything to anyone. Just cause your pants are tighter than mine does not mean your opinion is worth more than mine or anyone else's. This really applies to all forms of art not just painting.
I used to like Nirvana, now I think they sound like Rickety Cricket playing kettle drums. I hate Weezer, Fergie, other pop artists but for some reason I can't explain I enjoy a catchy tune once in a while. I honestly can't explain this. I read a movie review of Gran Torino today in which the reviewer said something like he didn't like the movie because Clint Eastwood's character was racist, and in a post Obama-elect America there is no room for racism or some nonsense to that extent. Obviously his opinion on racism has nothing to do with the acting, directing, or the message of the story but he decided he wanted to judge that piece of art in that way and he is more than welcome to perceive it in that manner. Even if he misses the point completely. I could say he is dope and doesn't get what Eastwood meant with that film, but then I would be a hypocrite. I will say he is an idiot for other reasons (like not understanding all movies aren't true stories).
Now, sometimes an art history class comes in handy. Sometimes a little of an artist's back round can give you a cool bit of perspective. Occasionally the psychology of the artist comes into play, certain colors represent some sort of feeling. But sometimes that is just what happened. Colors on colors "I mean a two year could draw that, wait a two year has painted that." The kid's painting in that article was as good as pieces I have seen in museums. It is the same or similar enough to merit some cash. Maybe some day that toddler will be a world famous artist or maybe a 22 month old caught lightning in a (baby)bottle (sorry couldn't resist.) Just don't act all douchie and act like your better than me, one of yours just pimped a two-year-old's piece to the masses on his masterful eye's opinion. Now, shut up and go put on some Cd of a band that no one has ever heard and then get mad once it is played on a Top 40 and they are no longer good "anymore".