Fire at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn destroys studios and artwork of students

[Lilyo]

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The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York had a massive fire break out last night around 2:30 am in the senior painting studios. BFA painting students who were almost completed with their thesis presentations lost all of their work with only weeks until senior gallery shows were scheduled to start. No one was seriously injured, luckily, but this is a devastating loss for our school’s young professionals who are just about to embark on a career, now without the fruits of four years worth of intense labor and dedication. Hundreds of paintings and artworks were destroyed, as well as the supplies and studios.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/nyregion/pratt-institutes-main-building-damaged-by-fire.html?_r=2&[/url]

[Dr. Punchgroin]

Shit, I can't imagine losing several years of important work so quickly like that.

[XD!]

I hope they have pictures of those because years of resume material is down the drains

[mac338]

As an artist, that is my worst nightmare.

[Curls]

Always document + keep copies of artwork at home and digitally.

Doesn't matter if its public or private. Sure, maybe it isn't the original but it sure beats losing all that damn work!

[pajarojamal]

[QUOTE=Dr. Punchgroin;39641022]Shit, I can't imagine losing several years of important work so quickly like that.[/QUOTE]

I'm in art student; this would make me just want to say fuck it. A lot of art is priceless; your technique and the way you draw does not show in certain pictures because textures that are used to create volume and space by cross hatching and dotting wouldn't show because they would be blended together

[Maloof?]

just call it mass performance art

[editline]19th February 2013[/editline]

I joke of course; I'm an art student right now and if I was doing traditional painting or sculpture I'd have been devastated by something like this

[Problem]

[QUOTE=Maloof?;39641424]just call it mass performance art

[editline]19th February 2013[/editline]

I joke of course; I'm an art student right now and if I was doing traditional painting or sculpture I'd have been devastated by something like this[/QUOTE]

same, I would be fucking seething

[Mr. Scorpio]

am I the only artist who wouldn't be [I]that[/I] infuriated?

I mean shit, I'm no renaissance painter. I don't put in the kind of insane work that these people probably do into individual things.

But at the end of the day, you can always make more, yeah? I mean I'd rather lose a ton of artwork than something with sentimental value. They're students, they have lifetimes to make more art.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;39641794]am I the only artist who wouldn't be [I]that[/I] infuriated?

I mean shit, I'm no renaissance painter. I don't put in the kind of insane work that these people probably do into individual things.

But at the end of the day, you can always make more, yeah? I mean I'd rather lose a ton of artwork than something with sentimental value. They're students, they have lifetimes to make more art.[/QUOTE]

[quote]BFA painting students who were almost completed with their thesis presentations lost all of their work with only weeks until senior gallery shows were scheduled to start.[/quote]

thesis presentations are really important in academics

[Commando123]

I am sure they will get some kind of compensation of some sort.

[TonyP]

Use this as inspiration for future art.

[Ylsid]

They didn't back it all up? Pratts.

[Kartoffel]

Shit, one of my professors went to Pratt. At least he didn't lose anything there (I hope)...

[mac338]

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;39641794]am I the only artist who wouldn't be [I]that[/I] infuriated?

I mean shit, I'm no renaissance painter. I don't put in the kind of insane work that these people probably do into individual things.

But at the end of the day, you can always make more, yeah? I mean I'd rather lose a ton of artwork than something with sentimental value. They're students, they have lifetimes to make more art.[/QUOTE]

Other than essentially loosing 4 years worth of hard work, these paintings often do have real sentimental value to the painters. And it's not like having your car blow up, because cars are mass produced entities. Art is unique work that can't be recreated.

[pajarojamal]

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;39641794] at the end of the day, you can always make more, yeah? I mean I'd rather lose a ton of artwork than something with sentimental value. They're students, they have lifetimes to make more art.[/QUOTE]

Some were preparing for graduation, and it's not simply just making more; their's time and effort behind it. It's like your computer hard-drive crashes with all your personal and work-related information.