Blog: Reflections of AED 200

1. What were you expectations for this course and where they met? I had no real expectations for this course. But I could not have *dreamed* up what this course was. The whole idea of having fellow students evaulate my work is NOT what I would have expected. Had I known that would have happened I would never have taken the course. There needs to be another option - some people won't mind this, some will mind but will get through it. Others will find it traumatic - I am of the latter bent, my art is for me alone, I don't share it in real life for a reason - it feels like exposing my soul and while I kind of agreed to allow the teacher there and expected the teacher to grade it I found it horribly intrusive and hateful.

2. Now that you've been through this course, What is art? How would you define it now compared to your intial posting?
This is what I wrote in my intial posting


" I don't think art is just what academics hang in galleries...art is that quilt that someone made,the fiddle piece that John Scott Skinner wrote and others have changes as they played it, the Ode to joy, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, that cross stitch that someone took the time to do, the meal that some one cooked. The crochet piece or so many other things. I firmly believe that if you limit your vision of Art to the stuff that hangs in Gallaries you will loose so much more to that adds beauty to our lives.

My definition - Art is that which a person made and that adds beauty to someone's life."

I stand by that completely



3. Who was your favorite artist in your original posting and who is your favorite visual artist now? If there is a difference, why do you think so? If you have the same favorite artist, why do you think so?
My intial Posting

"I could not possibly choose just one.
from the ones that most folks would "qualify" as artists.
Painter Vangogh or Monet

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright or Louis Sullivan

Photographer Ansel Adams"


And they are still my favourites. They have been since I wasa kid and they will likely remain so til I die. Although I have seen some others that I would never have looked at, that I now enjoy because of this class.

4. Now that you've completed this course, how do you feel about taking an online course? Is your answer the same as it was in your first posting? How is it the same or different?


I have another class online this semester - I would take another class online if it were not designed that other students grade me. I will not take another art class for a grade again - on or offline