My Reflection Of Art

I grew as an artist this semester because I learn a lot techniques that I can use for the future like screen printing or using objects that I already have and putting them together as an art piece. I improve on drawing realistic objects like animals. Last year, I had a hard time drawing realistic objects like my landscape painting. I improved from that and learned a lot from my teacher.

Throughout my years in writing and taking English courses I have always been a faulty writer and never have been strong in this aspect. Truthfully my writing was the same until I came to college and took English 104 with Professor Horjus. Horjus had taught me things about myself and my writing that I never gave my full attention too and explaining my thoughts. Professor Horjus had started off class on making us say things we could work on after turning in an essay and feel we lacked or felt very strongly about. Being able to talk about the lack of my writing skill or even the strong aspects in my writing let me see that everything teachers have taught me in the past has honestly not really helped. College English has defiantly shined a new light on writing for me.

I’ve have always felt like I didn’t know how to appreciate art and comprehend it importance, from individual pieces to art as a culture and field. I am not artistic myself, not in any traditional way, so I have had trouble stepping into the perspective of an artist. Still, I do understand the phenomenon of being moved, and greatly influenced, by art and I have discovered and explored some of the many ways in which it can be expressed. I hope to gain the skill of being able to really understand the depth and technique behind what I see and hear, so that I am able to complete my role as the audience and do the works justice.

Over the course of the semester, we have studied a variety of styles of writing, from the perspective paper to the

My understanding of the meaning of art has changed dramatically through this course as well as my perception of art and how I view art. Through this course, I have gained a great deal of knowledge as well as the accompanying vocabulary necessary to view, evaluate, critique, find meaning in, and interpret a work of art based on its visual elements and the principles of design and style. I have a newfound appreciation of art and now realize that art can be visual, functional, cultural or found in the architecture of not only where I live, but throughout the world. Just a few months ago, I did not even realize how many types of art, styles, and various forms and functions there were. Through this eight week course, I have learned how to study a piece of art to decipher its meaning, gain appreciation for the

My mentees never felt discriminated against, but they definitely did mention there were a couple of times they felt uncomfortable enough to interact with their peers. After a couple of months, I realized that my mentees' 'were experiencing racial microaggression from their peers-- unintentional and subtle but yet harmful discrimination. I had once heard of microaggession through a presentation at the Counseling Center on campus, but I was not well educated on it. For the following days I did a lot of research on it on my own.

The day was December 30th it was a chilly day when a young artist named Betty Edwards walked into her first class on art.

I walked into this class having the mindset that this class was going to focus on how to incorporate drawing and painting into the classroom. I was apprehensive about having to take a class on how to integrate art across content areas. Reflecting on the course, art has become to mean much more to than visual arts. Art can mean writing poems like the where I am from poems, incorporating movement for the kinesthetic learners and incorporating singing. This course opened up my eyes on how movement can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, how sounds can add into the learning process to make the learning fun, and how teaching with visuals can make the learning more meaningful.

When I read the works of The Art historians featured in the lead Essay, one thing kept crossing my mind. What was it that was common with their choice of words? What exactly bound their words in relation to art? Then I thought of the exact thing that has shaped my college life. What was so intuitive that kept me in the imaginations of an artist? I settled on the word “culture”.

Walker Percy states that one may recover their experience by leaving the beaten path and experience it in there own way(15). The museum does a fine job at letting its guest explore the works at there own rate there is no set path one must follow. There are lots of different door and paths you can travel down all leading to different styles and exhibits. Beside the pieces of art at the museum was a little plaque that would give some background of the piece. They might say who it was by, when it was made, what it was made out of, or what it was about. These plaques could be argued as both helping and hindering the viewer's experience. It helps the viewer by giving them some general background on the piece which will help them learn more about it and what the author was thinking when ever he made the piece. On the other hand though knowing all this information can change how you view the piece of art. John Berger gives a great example of this by showing the reader a picture of a Van Gogh and then showing

When I started this semester I expected college to be like highschool but harder. I was wrong there are many things that I did not expect, and though I did alright this semester I plan on improving a great deal next semester. Next semester I plan on improving how much work I put into academics, how I plan on spending my money, and how I plan on improving my personal life.

When I had first passed my TSI test that I needed in order to get college classes, I was pretty excited to find out that I was taking art appreciation. At first it was nothing like I had expected, I thought it was just another class. We learn about famous paintings that are very popular in the modern times, stuff dating back a really long time.

During this second semester I have been trying to accomplish my goals from first semester. These goals include being able to write smoother introductory and conclusion paragraphs, maintaining an A in ELA 10, and improving my writing in any way possible. I took many steps to complete these goals. First of all, I maintained an A in ELA by turning in everything on time and turning in quality work. Second, I improved my writing by continuing to write often and using newly learned concepts in my writing. However, my last goal is still a work in progress. I have been working on my introductions and conclusions by trying new methods out in my essays. For example, in my Of Mice And Men essay I tried starting my introduction with a quote, which I hadn’t done before. In my opinion, I think I met my goals very well and followed the steps I needed to to become successful in achieving my goals. To conclude, I successfully completed most of my goals and got the results I wanted.

When I lived in Chile I got to observe poverty, injustice, and corruption, but I didn’t recognize it as such while living there, I simply saw it as the way things were and accepted the bitter reality that my home country put me through. Thankfully, when I moved to Canada, I got to experience living in a comfortable first world country and truly realized the flaws that Chile has. This is why elements such as rebellion, social issues and the forceful infliction of Christianity reflect on many of my artworks. When I first started taking art classes in Canada, my teachers required me to put meaning into my artwork, something I had never done before. Due to this requirement, I slowly began to think about what the meaning of my art was before I started. This allowed me to meticulously plan my piece, which resulted in an improvement in my overall composition process. I began to express my point of view of the world, and brought in my experience of living both a third and first world countries into my art; in my opinion, making it unique, and personal. I usually tend to express my perspective of the world, with a variety of materials. These include pastels, charcoal, pen, paint, and multimedia. Stylistic trends that tend to appear in this type of my artwork is the use of dark colors, rhythm and the use of materials in a chaotic matter; by this, I refer to the use of multiple materials in one piece. While some conceptual trends include my expressing of social issues that I can

I have read several pieces of literature on nature, which has directed me to the understanding on how nature and I are similar with the ability to adapt, be resilient , and persistence. During large-scale obstacles that I have had in my life, I was able to adapt, be resilient, and be persistent. Having those characteristics has pulled me through moving states and schools, coming out as bisexual, and the loss of my best friend .