Art 101
When was the last time you looked at yourself and reflected on your experiences? What have you done to your self-worth? That is the problem that is arising. Many people that complete a secondary education have a harder time to find their self-worth due to the lack of experiences in their education. The best way that individuals can find their self-worth is through an art class. This art class would be called Art 101: The study of your self-worth through experiences. Art is an important aspect in our life because it strengthens our culture, fosters our creativity and brings new possibilities with growth. I have always struggled in finding my self-worth in my culture because all the art classes that I have taken in the united states lack the
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The course syllabus had all the learning objectives bolded with oversized fonts like it did not show its emphasis. I felt like an oversized bird in a small cage. I wanted to fly out of that class because we were learning how to draw basic circles. I remember that course syllabus and nothing on that paper mentioned and key phrases like growth or creativity. The overexaggerated paper mentioned simplistic tasks that I could individually learn at home. I looked right in front of me and saw a magnificent painting by the famous painter named Vincent van Gogh. The painting was called the starry night. The painting sparked creativity in me, by making me overlap the existing circles on my paper and made me create new meaning to my paper. The picture helped me visualize the importance of creativity and it helped me create a new learning experience. The philosopher of education named John Dewey mentioned in his book, “A lifetime would be too short to reproduce in words a single emotion. In reality; however, poet and novelist have an immense advantage over even an expert psychologist in dealing with emotion. For the former build up a concrete situation and permit it to evoke emotional response. Instead of a description of an emotion in intellectual and symbolic terms, the artist ‘does the deed that breeds’ the emotion.” (Dewey, John(N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s art as experience. Art Is a Powerful, Imperfect Form and the Experience of it Has the Potential to Be Transformative: Alexis Clements) This quote is a vivid representation that art can be manipulative and can be a factor that helps is grow our own self-worth through fostering our
The course syllabus had all the learning objectives bolded with oversized fonts like it did not show its emphasis. I felt like an oversized bird in a small cage. I wanted to fly out of that class because we were learning how to draw basic circles. I remember that course syllabus and nothing on that paper mentioned and key phrases like growth or creativity. The overexaggerated paper mentioned simplistic tasks that I could individually learn at home. I looked right in front of me and saw a magnificent painting by the famous painter named Vincent van Gogh. The painting was called the starry night. The painting sparked creativity in me, by making me overlap the existing circles on my paper and made me create new meaning to my paper. The picture helped me visualize the importance of creativity and it helped me create a new learning experience. The philosopher of education named John Dewey mentioned in his book, “A lifetime would be too short to reproduce in words a single emotion. In reality; however, poet and novelist have an immense advantage over even an expert psychologist in dealing with emotion. For the former build up a concrete situation and permit it to evoke emotional response. Instead of a description of an emotion in intellectual and symbolic terms, the artist ‘does the deed that breeds’ the emotion.” (Dewey, John(N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s art as experience. Art Is a Powerful, Imperfect Form and the Experience of it Has the Potential to Be Transformative: Alexis Clements) This quote is a vivid representation that art can be manipulative and can be a factor that helps is grow our own self-worth through fostering our