What have I learned from Art Appreciation? I think there are so many concepts that I have learned from this course that I can relate to everyday life that it would be literally impossible to write each one down. Mainly I think I have gained the appreciation of the things that surround me. I have taken a lot more time out of my life to look and reflect on the world that I see on a daily basis. With my fiancée in Iraq, each day is getting increasingly harder, but thanks to taking this class I can see the beauty within even the most painful artwork. I have grown to understand that art is a mere reflection of raw emotion for most artists. And I am truly happy that I am able to share this experience and learning process with others. It allowed me to grow as a person and understand that I am not the only who feels the way I do, if I look around me there will always be someone who is expressing the way they feel through art. I may not be an artist but I do appreciate the aspects of my life that they contribute too.
Not to sound cliché, but during the course of this class I have broken down into tears over some of the art work that I had seen in the text or that I have seen scanning through the internet for a better understanding of certain keywords. I avoid watching the news and reading the newspapers for fear of hearing any horrible news coming out of Iraq, but to me it is amazing how I can’t avoid art, no matter which way I turn it is always there staring me in the face. I think it is still shocking in a way that art has so much to do with our everyday lives and I wish that I ultimately had the capacity to create such elegant pieces of art, like the ones we have seen throughout this course. (Trust me no matter how hard I tried it always looked like a 5 year old painted it). Yes the key terms of this course plague my head, heck even the key terms from my class with Pacansky-Brock my first semester at Sierra plague me!!! Every time I walk into a building I can tell you the different types of architectural terms that were used in creating the look of each building. But overall I think that I am going to remember the way I felt when I first looked at a painting and broke down into tears, not by seeing the painting, but being able to translate what the artist was trying to say or expression when they were creating it. I understand that it can be important to know what kind of paint was used, what style or era the painting was in, but this class is truly ART APPRECIATION. I told my fiancée that I didn’t really expect to receive any type of experience that would be so incredibly movable, but I did and was thankful. This class helped me through 7 weeks without the love of my life, for that I will be forever grateful.
Not to sound cliché, but during the course of this class I have broken down into tears over some of the art work that I had seen in the text or that I have seen scanning through the internet for a better understanding of certain keywords. I avoid watching the news and reading the newspapers for fear of hearing any horrible news coming out of Iraq, but to me it is amazing how I can’t avoid art, no matter which way I turn it is always there staring me in the face. I think it is still shocking in a way that art has so much to do with our everyday lives and I wish that I ultimately had the capacity to create such elegant pieces of art, like the ones we have seen throughout this course. (Trust me no matter how hard I tried it always looked like a 5 year old painted it). Yes the key terms of this course plague my head, heck even the key terms from my class with Pacansky-Brock my first semester at Sierra plague me!!! Every time I walk into a building I can tell you the different types of architectural terms that were used in creating the look of each building. But overall I think that I am going to remember the way I felt when I first looked at a painting and broke down into tears, not by seeing the painting, but being able to translate what the artist was trying to say or expression when they were creating it. I understand that it can be important to know what kind of paint was used, what style or era the painting was in, but this class is truly ART APPRECIATION. I told my fiancée that I didn’t really expect to receive any type of experience that would be so incredibly movable, but I did and was thankful. This class helped me through 7 weeks without the love of my life, for that I will be forever grateful.
Hopefully the pictures of my fiancee above help you understand that somehow this class meant alot more than writing of blogs and looking over images, paintings, or photographs. It kept me pretty much sane!!! So again THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Kristina Harrison...(soon to be Haukap.;-P)
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