28 Ways Your Child Will Change Once Stepping Into Art School

Oh son and/or daughter, I know you'll probably want to be called something gender neutral the next time I see you.

1. A disdain for half their hair.

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2. ...And a colour change for the surviving half.

Edgy.

3. "Wow, THIS is what cigarettes are like??"

These are phenomenal! Anyone want to go brood outside the Painting department with me?

4. Or, y'know... other stuff.

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"It just really makes you reevaluate.... why we're all here, ya know?"

5. A sudden swerve to the radical

Banksy

I am not to be trifled with.

6. Chip on the shoulder.

Political correctness or gtfo.

7. Strong desires to hide how they used to draw...

Bury that shit deeppp. Like Chamber of Secrets deep.

8. A sexual awakening

Egon Schiele

"I call this piece, Self Sexual."

9. Oh god.

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10. A perusal into the "dark arts"

The Art of Skinner

11. Oh god noo... Son, whyyy

Francis Bacon

Soon you'll feel my pain.

12. Loss of the fear of needles

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13. A delving into of other cultures

like that of a 1940s sailor.

14. (sigh) Someday...

15. Seriously, their threshold for pain is unmatched.

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Sacrifice everything for art.

16. A drastic shift in movie tastes...

The Cremaster Cycle

You suspect that only pretend to like it.

17. Also music tastes...

Elliot Smith

"This speaks to me..."

18. ...And with that, a discovery of new hobbies

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Like the wheels of steel... They still call it that, right?

19. Vegetarianism and further.

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But occasionally will indulge in not-made-from-soy beef.

20. Their taste in liquor is higher than your own.

21. Wallets that moths fly out of...

But they assure you, that no two brushes are the same.

22. Thrift store enthusiasm.

"I promise, it's not from Urban."

23. But ultimately, will be completely different colours.

It's like every week is Holi.

24. Eclectic everything.

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A polar bear with a top hat?? Wackyyy as ffff

25. Critique emotions.

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"THAT COLOUR (sniff) WAS INTENTIONAAALLLL (uncontrolled sobbing)"

26. A desire to question everything.

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Nothing is real anymore.

27. Especially typography.

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Regardless of their major.

28. But in the end, exhaustion.

You suspect it might be the Cadmium Red.