Rejected from the Ruskin School of Art Oxford

I just got my rejection email today. I am a traditional painter, i spend 6 months on one painting, i paint through the night and in the early hours of the morning. i go to galleries every weekend, run socities, currently discussing logistics of being exhibted. i have won competitons, i have done more. but hopefully others will find comfort in reading this that succesfull candidates just fit a 'criteria' but are by no means a measure of how succesful you will be or are as an artist, how passionate you are or how much extra you do.

i have learnt the hard way: art schools not only oxford, want conceptual, fighting against establishment trendy artists. the real 'artists' who fight against the establishment are the traditional ones, far too uncool to be recognised.

you have more balls and breaking more conventions, in doing an oil painting than throwing some rubbish on the floor and calling it art.

everyone is willing to call anything art, except, god forbid, something that bares resemblance to any art at all.

I just got my rejection email today. I am a traditional painter, i spend 6 months on one painting, i paint through the night and in the early hours of the morning. i go to galleries every weekend, run socities, currently discussing logistics of being exhibted. i have won competitons, i have done more. but hopefully others will find comfort in reading this that succesfull candidates just fit a 'criteria' but are by no means a measure of how succesful you will be or are as an artist, how passionate you are or how much extra you do.
i have learnt the hard way: art schools not only oxford, want conceptual, fighting against establishment trendy artists. the real 'artists' who fight against the establishment are the traditional ones, far too uncool to be recognised.
you have more balls and breaking more conventions, in doing an oil painting than throwing some rubbish on the floor and calling it art.
everyone is willing to call anything art, except, god forbid, something that bares resemblance to any art at all.

lol so true. I applied this year. They want people with agendas, who think deeply, are curious and believe in knowledge for the sake of knowledge and who's ambitions are to make great art rather than be awarded a first. They want people who have a maturity and intellect that's above the average teenager's. They dont like the word TRADITION because good art is ALWAYS pushing against tradition, even if done through oil paint. as soon as you put brush to canvas you are in dialogue with history. So you could reimagine a history in order to look forward (have a look at Oropuba, Cecily brown, Kerry James Marshall, jute koether and Michael armitage as examples of reflexive painting, or conceptual painting). and carmel, six months on one painting is ridiculous especially if your painting through the nights as well. My advice for you would be to start questioning the world around you, think of the specificity of painting etc... I do agree, it is braver to paint like de Kooning than to try and reinvent the wheel. For example, Martha Jungwirth, Katy Moran, Tim stoner are all traditional painters. how do you mean traditional, because tradition for me is (pollock de Kooning minimalism etc)