Okay, so I have muttered on about how excited I am about starting this course and being eager to get my teeth into it. That's enough of that.
So, what I have learned so far? To tell the truth not much.
I am going through the study companion again as I muttered on about yesterday.
I know I am getting a bit ahead of myself, but a bit of reading doesn't hurt anyone.
I have read Dr. Faustus and a bit about Christopher Marlowe.
I have read a bit about Cezanne and honestly, although I have a deep appreciation for art, it does not mean that I have to like every painting that I come across and I really, really don't like Cezanne's Three Bathers. I know that he was a groundbreaking painter and had to put up with a lot of stick because of it, but blimey, I can kind of understand where all of these negative comments were coming from.
I do like some of his paintings mind. The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers, for instance, is a really good painting, one that I can appreciate deeply. But I have no idea what he was thinking when he painted his version of Leda and the Swan. It's not my cup of tea.
Maybe through this course, I will see something that I never saw before and it will open my eyes to whatever it is that I am missing. I hope so.
Enough About Muttering On...
Okay, so I have muttered on about how excited I am about starting this course and being eager to get my teeth into it. That's enough of that.
So, what I have learned so far? To tell the truth not much.
I am going through the study companion again as I muttered on about yesterday.
I know I am getting a bit ahead of myself, but a bit of reading doesn't hurt anyone.
I have read Dr. Faustus and a bit about Christopher Marlowe.
I have read a bit about Cezanne and honestly, although I have a deep appreciation for art, it does not mean that I have to like every painting that I come across and I really, really don't like Cezanne's Three Bathers. I know that he was a groundbreaking painter and had to put up with a lot of stick because of it, but blimey, I can kind of understand where all of these negative comments were coming from.
I do like some of his paintings mind. The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers, for instance, is a really good painting, one that I can appreciate deeply. But I have no idea what he was thinking when he painted his version of Leda and the Swan. It's not my cup of tea.
Maybe through this course, I will see something that I never saw before and it will open my eyes to whatever it is that I am missing. I hope so.
Catch ya later
Angie