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Originally Posted by atari 2600
It's my feeling that the majority of fine art instructors discourage the practice, unless collage or the like is the specific focus, I suppose.
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That's very true, albeit on a covert level. Fine Art programmes are now desperately trying to compete with more commercially focused 'graphics' courses - leading to a certain level of purism. There's a definite (if rarely explicitely articulated) backlash going on within universty fine art programmes towards that whole breaking down of distinctions between purely gallery based art and that designed solely for the commercial sector. Which isn't to say that galleries aren't in themselves 'commercial', but you know what I mean.
The divide has far more to do with inter-school politics, than it does with aesthetics.