CKV magazine Jun. 2014 | Page 26

CKV  REFLECTION  PAPER     After  two  years  of  visiting  musea,  enjoying  musicals  or  watching  performances,  I’ve  finally   come  to  the  end  of  Arts  and  Culture.  Therefore,  in  this  last  reflection  I’m  going  to  look  back   on  these  two  years  and  ask  myself  the  question  whether  I  learned  something  from  it.   In  year  4,  I  think  Arts  and  Culture  was  totally  different  than  in  year  5.  First  of  all,  in  the   lessons  we  watched  strange  movies  all  the  time.  Most  of  the  time,  nobody  even  knew  what   the  movie  was  about.  Secondly,  the  assignments  were  quite  different  as  well  as  the  marking   of  the  CA’s.  In  year  4,  we  started  off  by  making  an  art  biography,  in  which  we  had  to  show  a   three  top-­‐3’s  of  three  different  forms  of  art.  Here,  I  chose  literature,  photography  and   paintings.  When  I  was  making  this,  I  had  no  idea  what  we  were  doing,  but  know  I  understand   why  we  had  to  make  this.  I  think  the  idea  of  beginning  and  ending  a  subject  in  such  a  way  is   very  creative  and  educative.  Also  the  different  assignments  we  had  to  do  like  making  the   documentary  and  creating  a  short  movie  were  very  nice,  as  we  learned  many  different   techniques.  Also  the  fact  that  we  had  to  write  a  CA  about  many  different  forms  of  art,  forced   us  to  visit  theatres  we’d  normally  avoid,  for  example  opera.  I  think  arts  and  culture  made  me   experience  these  kinds  of  things  that  I  would  not  have  experienced  otherwise.  I  enjoyed  the   opera  quite  much,  but  I  don’t  think  I’d  do  it  again.   In  year  five,  we  had  to  create  an  animation  of  a  Greek  myth  and  again,  we  learned  many   different  kinds  of  techniques  of  presentation  forms  we  could  use.  Also  four  the  assignment   ‘four  seasons’,  we  were  forced  to  think  in  a  very  creative  way,  because  the  assignment  had   almost  no  limits.  Furthermore  the  project  about  Fluxus  taught  us  things  we  normally   wouldn’t  have  bothered  about.  We  also  learned  how  to  make  a  presentation  lively  and  how   to  use  many  different  forms  of  presentation.     Arts  and  Culture  allowed  me  to  experience  different  forms  of  art.  However,  I  don’t  think  my   perception  of  art  has  changed  in  any  way.  I  realized  how  tough  it  is  to  create  for  example  a   ballet  or  an  opera  and  I  learned  about  the  process  behind  it,  but  my  perception  didn’t   change.  I  appreciate  arts  like  I  did  before,  but  I  didn’t  start  to  appreciate  it  more.  However,  I   did  learn  how  to  express  my  opinion  better  than  in  the  beginning.  I  think  this  process  can   also  be  seen  in  the  CA’s  I  made,  as  for  the  first  one,  I  didn’t  give  my  opinion  at  all,  whereas   for  the  last  CA  I  wrote  a  whole  page  about  what  I  thought  about  it.  Throughout  the  two   years  I’ve  seen  how  to  express  and  how  to  form  opinions  about  something  like  a  painting  or   a  ballet.     Looking  back,  I  was  quite  surprised  about  the  ballet,  because  I  really  enjoyed  it  and  I  didn’t   expect  it  at  first.  This  was  also  the  case  with  the  opera.  I  really  liked  the  combination  of   ballet  and  opera,  but  because  we  didn’t  know  the  storyline,  I  didn’t  know  what  the  whole   story  was  about.  But  most  of  the  times,  the  facial  expressions  of  the  actors  told  the  audience   many  things.  However,  I  was  quite  disappointed  by  the  classical  music.  Normally,  I  do  like   listening  to  it,  or  at  least  I  won’t  turn  it  off  when  it’s  on,  but  when  watching  the  orchestra,  I   felt  quite  disappointed.  It  wasn’t  as  lively  as  I  thought  it  would  be  and  I  felt  no  connection  at   all.         So  all  in  all,  Arts  and  Culture  taught  me  how  to  form  opinions,  made  me  appreciate  new   forms  of  arts  like  ballet  and  opera,  but  didn’t  change  my  perception  of  art  at  all.  But  I  think   they  were  two  educative  years  in  which  most  of  the  time,  I  didn’t  realize  I  was  learning   something,  but  looking  back  I  do  realize  now!