World-class artists fill a gap in schools

Unless you have exceptional outsider gifts and can offer new perspectives on life through a rational other world view—as opposed to just bad drawing and a palette like a pizza—then a battery of traditional skills is an essential starting point for a career in art.

Would you hire a plumber who runs water through a power duct? So why buy a painting from some lost soul who has not the faintest idea of line, tone, composition and ….