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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idea that art is an experience. Four summers ago, I had the opportunity to go back to my home country and visit my family. I was introduced to a family friend who teaches sculpting. I immediately joined the class and started on my first lesson. The lesson that I learned was to appreciate the origin of the firing clay. I made a quick assumption that the clay reminded me of the dirt that was close to my house. The firing clay was rusty red but when wet turned gray. I was amazed that the clay that I was molding was from the grounds from my home country. I had some difficulty molding the firing clay but, at the end I was amazed on how the simplicity of a flat object came to portray a three-dimensional figure. The American philosopher named John Dewey once said, ““We are not sufficiently alive to feel the tang of sense nor yet to be moved by thought. We are oppressed by our surroundings or are callous to them. Acceptance of this sort of experience as normal is the chief cause of acceptance of the idea that art cancels separations that inhere in the structure of ordinary experience.” (Dewey, John(N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s art as experience. Art comes from culture and vice versa, and it helps wake us up to what we’ve been glossing over: Alexis Clements) This relates worth because art has the capabilities to create new meaning and to also help us reveal the importance to our culture. Having a strong connection with our culture will help us grow into a stronger individual with self-worth. I remember sitting in an upper-division art class in the eighth grade and I would impatiently stare at the walls that had the course syllabus stabled.
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
creativity. “Art is thus a way of having the substantial cake of reason while also enjoying the sensuous pleasure of eating it.” (Dewey, John (N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Imperfect but Satisfying: Alexis Clements) This symbolical quote by the co-founder of the New York City’s New School, Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience, clearly demonstrates that art can bring new perspectives. It can also bring us closer to our self-actualization. Per the, National Arts Education: Public Awareness Campaign,” Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week are four times likely to be recognized for academic achievement. With this contextual evidence, we can clearly see that art is an important factor in our perspective, because we can experience growth in other aspects of our life. This art class will help find your self-worth through structuring culture, growing your creativity and growth in other aspects in life. Art 101 would truly be the next art class that would change your stereotype of a regular art class. You will develop intellectual strength on your self-worth by drawing your experiences as art. Even, Alexis Clements agrees to Dewey’s contextual quote; that, “every student should get the help to have the “full and ready” use of all his capacities.” Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Art is crucially talked about, but what you can get from this art class, is a unique new mindset that you can become an individual with an opinion and character.
idea that art is an experience. Four summers ago, I had the opportunity to go back to my home country and visit my family. I was introduced to a family friend who teaches sculpting. I immediately joined the class and started on my first lesson. The lesson that I learned was to appreciate the origin of the firing clay. I made a quick assumption that the clay reminded me of the dirt that was close to my house. The firing clay was rusty red but when wet turned gray. I was amazed that the clay that I was molding was from the grounds from my home country. I had some difficulty molding the firing clay but, at the end I was amazed on how the simplicity of a flat object came to portray a three-dimensional figure. The American philosopher named John Dewey once said, ““We are not sufficiently alive to feel the tang of sense nor yet to be moved by thought. We are oppressed by our surroundings or are callous to them. Acceptance of this sort of experience as normal is the chief cause of acceptance of the idea that art cancels separations that inhere in the structure of ordinary experience.” (Dewey, John(N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s art as experience. Art comes from culture and vice versa, and it helps wake us up to what we’ve been glossing over: Alexis Clements) This relates worth because art has the capabilities to create new meaning and to also help us reveal the importance to our culture. Having a strong connection with our culture will help us grow into a stronger individual with self-worth. I remember sitting in an upper-division art class in the eighth grade and I would impatiently stare at the walls that had the course syllabus stabled.
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
creativity. “Art is thus a way of having the substantial cake of reason while also enjoying the sensuous pleasure of eating it.” (Dewey, John (N/A) Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Imperfect but Satisfying: Alexis Clements) This symbolical quote by the co-founder of the New York City’s New School, Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience, clearly demonstrates that art can bring new perspectives. It can also bring us closer to our self-actualization. Per the, National Arts Education: Public Awareness Campaign,” Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week are four times likely to be recognized for academic achievement. With this contextual evidence, we can clearly see that art is an important factor in our perspective, because we can experience growth in other aspects of our life. This art class will help find your self-worth through structuring culture, growing your creativity and growth in other aspects in life. Art 101 would truly be the next art class that would change your stereotype of a regular art class. You will develop intellectual strength on your self-worth by drawing your experiences as art. Even, Alexis Clements agrees to Dewey’s contextual quote; that, “every student should get the help to have the “full and ready” use of all his capacities.” Reconsidering John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Art is crucially talked about, but what you can get from this art class, is a unique new mindset that you can become an individual with an opinion and character.