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That doesn't really make it better, or right, even if it's absolutely believable to me based on what I've seen in manga/anime. The whole "we have reputation to uphold" is such a pure Asian bullshit. Let's give the brown-haired student suspension until she dies her hair black, so people don't think we're too easy on students! Someone resigned from their job from "black" company, that's not loyal and it's bad reputation, we don't hire such people! This teenage model wants to date her boyfriend, what if people start talking?I think people should understand that the place they're going to isn't an art school the way you think it is.
It's a college prep school.
It's a place where they teach you less about how to draw and more about how to develop work that could get you into your university of choice. Think of it as mock exams for art students, if you fail that "exam" they'll let you know at the critique. Yatomi Painting Class, where both Inuyama and Toyoda came from is an actual art class where they teach techniques and fundamentals. Prep school are more advanced and starts diving into intent and expression. Prep school instructors will tell you what you are lacking, in Inuyama's case it's that his art is bland.
Teachers at prep schools are very harsh because their schools have reputations to uphold, usually on their pamphlets they would list a percentage of successful college entrants from their school. If you're not at a level where they think you might even stand a chance, they would much rather you not come at all and give that spot up to someone else more talented/hard-working. You're paying them to guide you and they're betting on you to deliver.
The teacher is harsh but right, she's not shitting on his work and she even said his composition is fine and details are clear. But she is saying that his work is not up to par for something that could get into college. It's better to weed out people who are phoning it in, save their money, save the teacher's time, and save the opportunity for someone else.
Admittedly she said she's assuming Inuyama is a slacker, but she doesn't know how hard he tries.
On a side note, one way to remedy boring still life is to increase contrast when rendering the objects. If everything is too clean and perfect then it's really not visually striking. One way Inuyama could improve is actually to render only a specific object in clear detail while leaving others more loose (but still accurate). This bias injected into the work tells the viewer what the artist is interested in and what they consider the star of the composition, hence "intention" and "meaning".
I remember my reaction to that Food Wars academy and their bragging about very few students managing to finishing it "So they get the best students as first years and they only manage to teach the few of the best of them to the end? What about all the students with potential they kicked?" and later there was that scene with Megumi almost getting kicked out due to bullshit test with not enough fresh produce for students "because in real life you'll sometime have problems with supplies", the same Megumi which later turned out to be one of the best students in the grade. But the easiest, laziest, most wasteful and cruelest method to get few elite students finishing your school is to get as many good ones as possible with bullshit "reputation", and kick them out even if they could fare much better with more guidance, so the best and most hardworking ones that were also lucky enough to not get dropped due to some bullshit are the only ones remaining, and you can tout how great your teaching is, even though hardest part of teaching is polishing rough and hidden diamonds.
The whole "you'll have it even harder later, you need to get accustomed to it" in several comments I've seen is another kind of bullshit, why not slap female students on butt or comment on their tits because they might have to deal with sexually harassing customers later on?
And the assumption about Inuyama being a slacker is just great example how her teaching method is awful, she doesn't know anything about him after few meetings, but after at first refusing to give him and half of class any critique, she's already trashing him because he might not get better later, and school has their fucking precious "reputation" to uphold. Like other people commented, if this was a teacher who already knew him for a while, this could be far better executed, but author decided to quickly turn Inuyama's art into trash, and because it would be hard (but the correct way) to show it to readers, used some random asshole sensei to give him bullshit "harsh truth" instead to tell the readers his art is getting bad.
Dumb-ass comment, there were plenty of people with experience with art education in this and previous chapter threads here and on Reddit, some of them did claim this is normal and expected, others said that some harsh critique is normal but trashing someone like that in front of class is some asshole bullshit, yet another folks said that they only met few professors like that and they all were awful assholes whole classes sucked. And that's only counting art education, lots of people commenting have dealt with non-art higher education, for example in STEM, and as far as I've seen, to most of them this looks like pure unhelpful bullshit. Maybe teachers in art departments have it easier to get away with that attitude, especially but not only in Asian countries, we've all seen that "are you rushing or dragging" scene from Whiplash.It's very obvious that most of the people commenting on this are in high school and have no idea what any other type of teaching looks like.