Argumentative Essay: Michelangelo's Ink It Baby
On my birthday, the seventh of May, my mother, the eminent, Whitney West Scooter, almost had a major myocardial infarction. After, I told her that her aspiring Michelangelo had with-drawn from her alma mater the illustrious J. C. West Institute of Fine Arts. Throughout break-fast, lunch, and dinner, I tried to explain to her that the reason I left the Institute, at the end of my junior year, was to accept a generous offer put forth by Tommy Hagsmight, an iconic tattoo artist and owner of the multinational corporation, ‘Ink It Baby.” My mother, of course, didn’t care one iota, that Tommy would personally mentor me during my three year apprenticeship or that the corporation had agreed to pay for the apprenticeship program, license, seminars,
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So, instead of receiving a standing ovation she contemptuously lambasted me with every negative adjective in her repertoire and her favorite, ‘foolish’ she used redundantly. As a result of her rant, I merely stated how it would have been ‘foolish’ to turn down his gracious offer. Then nonchalantly pointed out the only difference between Apollo Scooter and Michelangelo was a matter of preference. To elucidate this line of reasoning, I stated that Michelangelo preferred to showcase his techniques with brush strokes arranged on a ceiling; therefore, only a few set eyes on his magnum opus. Besides, I pointed out, museums are an archaic format for exhibiting great artwork and the Ink Revolution is a way for artist to create their masterpieces that don’t hang in a stuffy museum or high on a ceiling, but rather walk the streets and on display for all to see. I could tell by the way my mother was breathing that she hadn’t bought into a word I said. However, I didn’t let that deter me and continued to enlighten her on the fact that I could bypass the protocols involved with an art exhibition by simply applying my techniques with a needle to the skin, instead of brush to canvas and ink a replica of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on someone’s
So, instead of receiving a standing ovation she contemptuously lambasted me with every negative adjective in her repertoire and her favorite, ‘foolish’ she used redundantly. As a result of her rant, I merely stated how it would have been ‘foolish’ to turn down his gracious offer. Then nonchalantly pointed out the only difference between Apollo Scooter and Michelangelo was a matter of preference. To elucidate this line of reasoning, I stated that Michelangelo preferred to showcase his techniques with brush strokes arranged on a ceiling; therefore, only a few set eyes on his magnum opus. Besides, I pointed out, museums are an archaic format for exhibiting great artwork and the Ink Revolution is a way for artist to create their masterpieces that don’t hang in a stuffy museum or high on a ceiling, but rather walk the streets and on display for all to see. I could tell by the way my mother was breathing that she hadn’t bought into a word I said. However, I didn’t let that deter me and continued to enlighten her on the fact that I could bypass the protocols involved with an art exhibition by simply applying my techniques with a needle to the skin, instead of brush to canvas and ink a replica of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on someone’s