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  The subject I   enjoy since High School until university is drawing. In school it was fun at first, my teacher showed us how to position the hand to draw more “comfortably”. How to draw faces and how to harmonize the qualities of each model. We were also taught how to draw without erasing a line. My teacher literally took my eraser and threw it out of the room. Of course next class none of us took one again. His work was preparing us for college level and he did quite a good job. Later at university I remember the exercises turn into something boring and repetative It wasn´t something like, “draw whatever you want and be expressive!”,noup,   not even in school. It was all about the technique, a straight stroke, the visual noise of the stroke width, and all this by hand. Once I was able to control that I started with the perspective and proportional measuring of objects.   ¿did you know that the width of a line can show the material of the object you are drawing...

  Well as a visual art student, I immediately thought about how art has been involved along the entire human history, perhaps not always in a good way, but it has been present. For example in the time of the great empires and kingdoms, the artist´s work was entirely linked to making esthetically beautiful pieces of art for an aristocrat public in order to subsist as it’s not a secret that the work of an artist has always been badly paid. However, at the same time, thanks to historical art records we can observe that there was also a shift towards focusing on the social paradigm. Now that we can analyze the previous records of all these artists in their time, we can see that some of them where conscious of their position in society, of their privileges or of the necessities they possessed. Most of them found the way to implant those thoughts in their work, and create a transgressive political type of art that basically shows how human discord tends to repeat over and over again in...