What Art Taught Me Analysis

Summative reflection

In these four months, IDEA 1100 has taught me many things which we forget to appreciate in our daily lives. Most importantly, I have learned to value and appreciate arts once again in my life. During my childhood, I have always been attracted towards the arts including paintings music and poetry. As I grew up, my respect for painters, musicians and poets became stronger along with my passion to learn a musical instrument. My passion motivated to play drums and even create my own band during high school. When I moved to Canada, the burden of studies and career became my priority and I did not have the time to pursue my passion towards arts.

Through this course, I was introduced to my passion by engaging in readings of Eisner “ What art taught me”, the author describes that arts itself involves development of skills and accumulation of knowledge if an individual is able to understand art from an intellectual point of view. The author further mentions that, “cognition referred not only to skills, but also to knowledge. The creation of a picture, or a poem, or a musical composition requires minimum, knowledge of the unfolding qualities with which one works” ( Eisner, 14). Through these readings, I was able to conclude that

When our class shared their solo flight proposal, I came across a painting of one my peers who tried to conclude her life through the various drawings and vibrant colours in her project. It was quite fascinating to connect to the people who share the same passion towards arts and able to express their experience and emotions through it. In addition, I also learned to deal with group conflict wisely when misunderstanding between the group members occurred during one of our assignment. Therefore, group cohesiveness, sharing experiences and exchanging ideas were some of highlights of this