With the end of my exam on Survey of Modern Art, I have officially completed yet another semester in university. It was a good conclusion, the paper was rather fun to do.
Throughout the whole semester we learned about various artists all the way from post-impressionism to surrealism. Learned about their life, their society, their struggle and of course how they translated everything into their works. It's a very enriching course and after knowing so much about the artists, they now feel like some good old friends to us. So when doing the paper it's really like writing things you know about your good friends, you can write a lot and it's really fun to write ^^
Still remember before the start of this semester right after the course registration, I was complaining how school's policy in making history modules compulsory are actually forcing us all to become art historians and I found it quite meaningless. But after all the knowledge gained, I would say I have no regrets in taking the history mods. From 2 years of studies on Studies of Visual Arts, 1 year of Western Art History, 1 year of Asian Art History and Half a year of History of Photography and History of Modern Art.. I really learn a lot about everything. About the human history in general, about life, about human being and about myself. You start to understand how certain things develop and become what it is today. You start to find it more meaningful to observe the world around you. You start to cherish what you have. You start to love life even more. Well.. at least that's how I feel. Gaining knowledge is a very wonderful thing, because you know whatever you have physically can be taken away from you easily, even your looks. But the knowledge you have will always be with you. Therefore, read more, see more and understand more. It will make you feel a lot more confident about yourself than wearing a good make up. Now the holidays just started for me, I am already looking forward to the next semester :)
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