I'll keep this short, making myself stick to one example.
When I was a boy the only "artists" I was familiar with were Hal Foster,
Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, Willy Pogany, Al Hirschfeld, Norman Rockwell, and,
thanks to the library, George Bridgman. (You have to forgive me a little bit
because I lived in a small Connecticut community with no art school and not
even a museum.)
I wanted to do what those "artists" did. So I went to that good old library
and took out books on "drawing". One of the things I learned with happy
astonishment was the "laws" of perspective. (They were much easier to learn
than
Bridgman's "The Seven Law of Folds".)
Here's my question for Chris. Given my philosophy of language positions, I
grant you can inflate the word 'taste' to cover damn near anything, but with
your honest notion of "taste" I ask this: Accepting that many art schools
have quickie courses on perspective, do you really believe that all the art
schools ever teach is "taste"?
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