Questão 2351981

Masterpieces rejected by art critics

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Despite severe criticism, famous artists continued

to move forward and pursue their art with the same

passion.

Art is a struggle – for everyone. Not just because

5 the creative process involves rigorous mental and

physical effort but also because it is a very difficult

career path to take. With thousands of struggling

creative professionals across the globe trying to

“make it”, pursuing art-making can become very

10 discouraging. However, the trick is to keep moving

forward despite all the obstacles you face. And when

that becomes hard, it can help to go back and look to the masters for inspiration, artistic and

otherwise.

Most masters, as we know them now, did not have it as easy as we think. They struggled too,

15 and more likely than not, a lot more than any of us ever will need to. However, they managed to

look past the rejections and the criticism and focused on their art alone because they believed in

themselves. Here are some of the obstacles that a greatest artist faced in his lifetime to inspire you

to keep moving forward and make you realize that rejection is just a part of the struggle that evolves

you as an artist, not the end of it.

20 Andy Warhol was undoubtedly the most unapologetically controversial artist of his time. Critics

thrashed his works as “aesthetic frauds” and criticized him for reducing art to a “hands-off business”.

In 1956, Andy Warhol donated a work of his (Shoe) to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Soon after, Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Director of the Museum Collections at the time, wrote Warhol

a letter rejecting his (free gift!) work due to “limited gallery and storage space”. “We must turn

25 down gifts offered since we feel it is not fair to accept as a gift a work which may be shown only

infrequently”, he explained.

Today, the Museum of Modern Art has 168 of Warhol’s works in their private collection, including

the Shoe.

We’ve all been there. The very moment you create something, you open yourself up to critique.

30 Whether or not you ask for it, art criticism can be a hard pill to swallow. Training yourself to accept

and learn from your harshest critics is one of the most difficult – but most rewarding – skills to

develop as an artist. But if the masters could do it, so can you!

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Shoe, by Andy Warhol

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TANYA SINGH

Adaptado de agora-gallery.com.

art criticism can be a hard pill to swallow. (l. 30)

In the sentence above, those who are supposed to swallow the pill are the ones below: