Art History opens your eyes.
Most of us see, but do we look? Art history teaches us to look deeply and searchingly. It explores the visual cultures of diverse peoples, places, and times. Emphasizing critical, historical, and linguistic skills, as well as creativity and innovation, art history offers a bridge between traditional, language-based fields in the humanities and the creative worlds of art, architecture, and performance.
Art history teaches analytical skills that encourage a critical and enquiring approach to visual experience. Studying art history will change the way you look at not only paintings and statues, drawings and prints, groundplans and elevations, happenings, installations, and videos, but also political advertisements, a patient’s symptoms, even the graphic user interface you are staring at right now.
Art History is more than the history of art. It’s a way to look at the world.
The classes taught me how to think analytically yet creatively, read critically, and take possession of my own work proudly and confidently.
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