University assignment driving me utterly MAD!

My art professor has assigned us the one task for his module weighed at 80% of the grade (besides a bit of reflective writing we’re going to be presenting alongside which) that is to be a piece of artwork of any sort, on any subject. Sounds like so much creative freedom and liberty of choice, and I must be elated to be allowed to choose whatever I want to address in whichever way and medium I want, right?

NO!!!!!! absolutely not!

I am completely dumbfounded and have never felt this degree of stupidity and dullness and insipidity in my whole uninspiring life!

Nothing is quite developed, mature, layered, complex or impressive enough for this guy! He’s made it very clear that his expectations for us, second year students, are of the same standards of concept and quality of well established artists in the market. Nothing we come up with appeases him, we’ve only got 5 confounded weeks left in the semester and we haven’t begun executing anything because our ideas are too mundane or juvenile for him to allow us to go through with them.

I am so beyond frustrated. I had already began to realise just how big of a mistake it was for me to do art at uni- but it wasn’t like I was fit for doing anything else besides- but now this professor shows up and claims he expects to ‘see work nothing short of the artworks in galleries and museums’, and that he doesn’t want to see a final product that ‘looks like it was made by a student’.

Oh confound me! Am I not actually a student?? He’s made me hate the mention of art or the thought of creating anything more than I already completely did.

I’ve been so miserable because of the fact that I haven’t been able to come up with anything that isn’t embarrassingly underdeveloped and juvenile, I haven’t been able to sleep properly or get anything at all done throughout the day because of how badly this has been weighing on me.

What do I do? Even when I feel the slightest spark resembling inspiration it instantaneously dies out because of how impossible the feat is to me. I know I cannot even reach the C grade in this module and it’s going to make dad hate me so much and I’m not ready for the fights and arguments this is going to create. I’m so exhausted! What do I do?