A Few Words On Art History

To fulfill my new program's requirements, I'm taking not one, but two Art History courses this term. Sounds extremely boring and I'm sure to most people it is. It mostly consists of discussing the works of dead artists and how they portray the period during which they lived and the social promise and conflict that surrounded them during that time. Strangely enough, I really enjoy it.

It's somewhat fascinating to see a painting you may have seen many times before and forgotten and be given an interesting story to explain it. It makes the painting easier to remember and far more appealing. It also gives you the ability to impress people when they say "Damn that's a bad painting" and you can explain the reasoning behind every stroke of the brush.

That doesn't improve the painting, but impresses none the less.

The only problem with an Art History class, however, is the papers. They bring me down, man. I've had to write papers for Art History based on some icky modern art. We've only studied beautiful classical art so God knows why I have to express the concept of space in a work of scribbles. I don't care how the space or lines affect that crap.

It will always be a jumble of scribbles to me.

End of story.