Something That We Abandoned.

The other day, my Law lecturer was telling us that Prince Harry is not a smart guy. He failed all (or almost) his subjects in O-Levels and the only one that he got as A was his Art.


That, apparently, is a surprise (or shock) to everyone. Everyone was like, "OMG, really? Wow, so he's not smart..."


For me, it came as a surprised as well. And then I realised the kind of society we are. And it's all over the same in the entire world, whether you're a blonde, brunette, black, white or any bloody kind of race and religion.


The fact that Prince Harry is not smart is a surprise to me but then it became a pretty good news. I then told my lecturer that you know, not everyone's perfect, he's just a human and we all make mistakes. But then she told me that he's a prince afterall and we all expect something better and higher.

So, hypothetically speaking, if he happened to pass all his subjects except for Art, we would most probably feel nothing. Because everyone would be like, "Great, he's good." No one would say he's poor because he sucks in Art.

Because no one really care.
I don't know why people don't care about Art. I don't know why there're people out there who would say that Art is easy. For me, Art has never been easy. It's literally the most difficult thing in the entire world. It's not easy to draw human from bird's eye view perspective. It's not easy to sketch a blondie's hair. It's not easy to learn watercolour skills. It's not easy to mix the colours you want. It's not easy to sharpen a pencil to get the sharpness you want. It's not easy to draw anatomies. It's not easy to get inspired. It's not easy when you're so worried if you can get a job in the future. It's not easy to save money to buy expensive brushes and colours and drawing blocks. And there's always a roller coaster of emotions. Emotions go up and then down and up and down.

But I think each an every second is worth it.
When you suck in other subjects and good in Art, people say you're stupid. When it's vice-versa, people say you're smart.
As quoted from Ted Baker, there's always a hierarchy of subjects. At the top, it's always the Sciences, then the Maths, then the Art. It's unfortunate Art is at the bottom because we all are only interested in subjects that can get you jobs and money.

How many times have you heard, "Blah.. art is not important. Why do you even bother studying it?"
And in schools (I'm talking about Malaysia in general), we all have only 2 periods of art per week And as for other subjects, we have a minimum of 4 periods. Even in the upper forms, Visual Arts is only 3 periods per week when being compared with Science classes which have 15 periods per week (Chemistry, Biology and Physics). If you see Art classes students' level of Art, they have unappreciative low level of art that obviously shows that they have absolutely no love for Art. Even Art students look down on themselves.

Because so many of us are convinced that Art do not get you anywhere. Even if we watch Disney animations that are perfectly done my successful animators, read comics created many comic illustrators, buy super expensive fine paintings by fine artists, watch advertisements by advertisers that have the power to make us crave for something, buy clothes by fashion designers that we would puke blood just to buy them, stay in buildings designed by architects, buy furnitures by interior designers, read fantastic magazines by graphic designers, watch movies by amazing movie directors, we still think that art is not important.

Like, what the hell do we need to care about art right?
So, let's see what happens if there's no art:

1. You'll most probably wear nothing. 
2. You'll have no shopping centers cos' there's nothing to be designed. 
3. You'll have no job. 
4. There'll be retarded economic growth. 
5. You'll have no Picasso, Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci. 
6. You'll have retarded hairstyle and look ugly because there are no hair stylists. 
7. You'll have no savvy cars, iPods because there are no product designers.
8. There'll be no business activity. 
9. Everyone will be stupid because smart people use both sides of their brain and since there's no art, one side of the brain is gone. 
10. And because you're already stupid, you'll most probably fail your science subjects too because you can't think. 
11. And then the world ends. 

Scary enough?
This is to say that art is just as important as any other subjects out there and I think it's unfair for any of us to judge art just because most of us think that it won't get us anywhere. Art is not easy. It is in fact,a darn challenging subject. That's why I enjoy it so much.