My Daughter was rejected from Oxford. I came home to this...

Because we have a generation of over-pampered middle class snowflakes who fail to deal with issues a mature person would have brushed off in a day.

Lol are you joking? you were getting annoyed over a painting of... literally nothing. just a white space.

This thread is hilarious

Yeah, I can understand abstract art may not be everyone's cup of chai.

But at the risk of being presumptuous, you can see what she is trying to do. The change of colours is her roller coaster emotion while she was reading the words in her rejection letter. White is elation, yellow is hope, the bright red is the gravity of rejection sinking in, blue is gloom, and black is despair. Each strip is placed excellently between changing colours.

There are fields in psychology entirely dedicated to how humans can map meanings into things that don't seem directly associated. Colour (black) and mood (sadness), Feelings (love, anger) and taste (sweet, bitter). It's great someone young can intuitively bring it out in art.

So it's a bit more complex than a toddler's scribbles.

But if that's not very interesting, we can at least agree that it's a productive way to deal with rejection.

Massive eye roll.

Sorry, I tried hard not to... but come on... I am sure you're probably right but art like this is so pretentious to me. How does anyone know whether the artist was actually thinking this, unless there's an actual formula, in whch case is it really that original? Each to their own I guess

I'll keep this answer brief as I want to move on from this topic.

Originality does not have to arise from breaking templates. It can come entirely from re-arranging elements of known templates.

To take a simple example, you are asked to write an "original" essay for your coursework. The originality that is expected of you is not uncovering some new path-breaking field but just using your own language and expression to restate what is already known.

Juxtaposing feelings to colours is not new. Doing it to an oxford rejection letter is (or at least rare).

I'll keep this answer brief as I want to move on from this topic.

Originality does not have to arise from breaking templates. It can come entirely from re-arranging elements of known templates.

To take a simple example, you are asked to write an "original" essay for your coursework. The originality that is expected of you is not uncovering some new path-breaking field but just using your own language and expression to restate what is already known.

Juxtaposing feelings to colours is not new. Doing it to an oxford rejection letter is (or at least rare).

This is exactly what Beyoncé did

Yeah but how do you know that she intended for those colours to represents those feelings?

Also, what fields in psychology?

I think I just struggle with respecting a lot of modern art as celebrated art, especially when people come up with long winded explanations for what it "means" that seem pretty contrived. I feel like half the time they're just doing it because they want to seem knowledgeable and show off to eachother. Honestly I walked around the Tate Modern once and half the stuff in there seemed so dumb and pointless. Maybe I just lack the type imagination that they inspire.

Also I'll never forget the day we went on a school trip to go see that lady poet that all school kids study, I can't remember her name, and someone asked her a long question about something we were all taught one of the lines in her poem meant... and she just said "No, I didn't mean any of that, there wasn't any special meaning behind that line lol*".

*ok she might not have said "lol"

Hating on the OP is wrong as a) least she attempted to get in which takes courage and b) idc what people do as long as it doesn't affect others.
When it comes to modern art tho people have every right to criticise it as it is in the public domain and art should be talked about and debated as it is subjective, some things can be clever and i understand the concepts behind them but as someone doing art it annoys me that i have had to work my guts out just to produce stuff that an examiner would deem an A* whereas ostensibly some 'artist' can slap some paint on a canvas and call it art. Im not stupid ik there is a lot of thought process behind it and they have often qualified from institutes that do advocate more skilled art but just a thought.

I kept my Oxford rejection letter til I got an offer one from Cambridge 3 years later

Its crazy, modern abstract art is just a pile of junk

While some people were elated this week with their decision from Oxford, some were left heartbroken.

Louisa Saunder's daughter had applied to Oxford, but had received a rejection letter. By the time Louisa had come home from work, her daughter had made this out of her rejection letter.




Personally I this is such a beautiful example of making lemonade out of lemons.

I don't get it, whats it meant to be?

Printed out email and some paint.