Today was one of those thinking days; when you just can't stop thinking about, or maybe even analyzing, everything and anything. But one of the things that came to mind was directly related to classes.
I have two majors - Spanish, and history of art. I noticed today that I have an completely different attitude towards the two subjects. And let me generalize Spanish to languages in general. When I learn languages, I enjoy the process of learning, grasping, and understanding it like no other. I learn a word and I want to repeat it a million times. I hear a word, and I love the anticipation of looking through a dictionary, about to find out the meaning. I am fascinated by every new tense. And even though, the ultimate goal is fluency, knowing a fourth of a language or half a language is no less exciting.
With art history it is different. Art history is a subject that I want to know as a whole, with all its intricacies and implications. I want to look at a painting and be able to tell all of its influences, imitations, purposes, ETC. With every new artist, I want to compare it to all related artists. There is always a discussion going back and forth between artists, and I want to be able to enter the conversation at any point. Maybe that's just a characteristic of studying any history; you cannot understand all of it untill you know all of it...
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