Hello CC! My name is Calaya, and I am in Victoria Ehrlich’s Art History FYE class. Alongside our study of western art history from the pre-historic era to our present day (we are now learning about the Medieval period), our class utilizes the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center collections to enhance our study of art. …
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Art History in the “Real World”
Surprisingly, in the few short weeks I have been an Art History student, I find myself identifying art wherever I go. After a lesson focusing on Greek art, my fellow classmates and I were delighted to spot some Ionic columns on our way to dinner and asked a stranger to take a picture of us. …
Avoiding Modern Judgments on Ancient Families
History is the story of the past. The past is recorded and studied by individuals who possess their own biases. To get a whole read of this “story”, historiography, what historians report about the past, and historicity, historical authenticity, must be considered as well. Carol Neel’s course, “Women, Children, & Men in a Historical Perspective,” …
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A String of Thoughts
“We fixed the education system”, my classmate exclaimed during our group discussion on Tuesday. Later in the week, we found out that our “solution” to the education system in the U.S was closely related to market theory, and that has a lot of issues in and of itself. We have been aggressively looking for answers …
An Open Letter to the U.S Education System
Dear U.S Education System, Why can’t we fix you? My class has spent a total of nine hours this week talking about how to combat re-segregation alone, and we have not gotten the slightest bit close to an answer. My problem is that I don’t even know where to start. Re-segregation is only one problem …
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Winter Ball Examined Through Theories of Sociology in Education
The ballroom was dim, and the music was loud. All I could see were my peers lumped into one organism, flowing on the floor, spinning like a tornado, and destroying everything in its path. All I could hear was the chatter of students and jazz music. All I could feel was hypocrisy itchy down my …
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A Mild Case of Stendhal Syndrome
As my adventure in Florence comes to an end, I circle back to the discussion around what makes art so impactful. Though most works, especially those from Renaissance, are static, flat, and unresponsive, I find them personally meaningful. In psychology, the inner stirring that art can inspire is called “aesthetic experience”: a feeling of sublime, …
A Talk With a Cell
The majority of this week has consisted of learning about proteins, one of the most complex, necessary, and incredible things that make up our bodies and the world around us. Forgive me as I go off on a bit of an absurd tangent – I blame the astonishing nature of cells and proteins for skewing …
Scary Excitement of Third Week
Second week has come to a close and third week starts up tomorrow… Scary? Exciting? Both! We are more than half way through the block – we have leaned so much yet still have so much to learn! At this point in any block, you are fully submerged in the material of your course yet …
A Giant Leap for Womankind
We’re moving from two dimensions to three this week, from painting to sculpture! During the Renaissance, sculptures were a way to influence public perceptions and identity- a form of political propaganda. The sculpture that I fell most in love with is the Juno Fountain, by Bartolomeo Ammannati. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I of …
