27/09/18 VL HOA module overview

 

 

The lecture was so interesting, it makes me want to read and read and read about parts of art history I haven't been interested in before. I am particularly interested in finding a book called, 'Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style' by Michael Baxandall. I want to learn more about classical art so I can have a deeper appreciation and understanding of its relevance and relationship with contemporary art. 

I thought the lecture was engaging and after talking to others, found that that was a shared view. Personally, I like it when a lecturer doesn't read from a script or stay behind the computer. I like to feel the passion and conviction in what they are saying. I think when you believe in what you are saying, shyness and anxiety disappear and the priority is to share the information. I find that exciting and engaging. I don't like to learn a script myself and I prefer to be prompted by images. In my last assessment, I missed out huge chunks of relevant information which will have been confusing and would have impacted on my mark so I need to somehow work out a way to compromise. 

I have started to paint at home, just small scale and familiar subjects. It is something I have avoided since school so I have little technical skill in the area. I like to paint in an abstract, rushed way but I struggle to know when to leave it and stop aiming for recognisability. For me to learn more about representation through history, movements and according to different cultures would not only be interesting but also beneficial to how I paint. 

I know that art, like in all aspects of humanity- we do not go forward and progress, we just go round in circles. I think it's good to remember the radical changes in art that have happened and the different perspectives/ audiences at different times, to feel less constricted when creating. It is inspiring to know there are no real rules.