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How to stay true to your aesthetic when it feels unfashionable

Everyone in my MFA program makes conceptual work and I just want to paint flowers but I feel like I have to justify existing as an artist

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Academic and cultural pressures to create certain types of work can alienate artists from their genuine creative interests and impulses.

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