Maps to Anywhere Review

How To Draw

Pg. 31-34

I read and decided to review How to draw because of the title. It concerned me because I am an Art minor and can draw myself. When I seen the title I immediately thought that it would connect with me. When I began to read the story I shortly realized that it was not about teaching people how to draw but about the whole concept of art itself. He starts out talking about how a regular person's little amateur art was better than a professional art piece. He then elaborate on that idea. He begins to tell the audience that art is a piece of work created to reflect someone's emotions and feelings. Which then backs his idea up that amateur art is better than professional art. It now makes since. A picture a child draw for his parents is more emotional than a professional art piece where there is no emotion.
He then talks about how he was interested in art and when he first began to be. He talked about his little brother being into art and came down with a terminal illness. He talks about how him and his mother coped with the situation. When his mother took interest in Toulouse-Lautrec art, he was actually researching different artworks. His favorite was minimal art as simple as it was. He pursued what his little brother loved and learned about what his little brother loves and why. After his brother died he kept researching art. He even says that he went to school for art and took every class for it. Now he go around collecting valuable artistic sculptures and drawings. He does not buy professional pieces though, he like to collect doodles from bored students, folded paper and other artwork of that kind. He believe that they are more valuable than professionals. Once I got to the end I realized that he actually was teaching people how to draw in a way. He was encouraging people that whatever artwork that they make rather time consuming and complicated with full effort to simple drawings on the side of your paper, was a great artistic piece of work and better than the professionals' work.