I am sure at one point I will sort out all the finer details of this blog but for now I shall continue.
I am currently studying for a BA degree in English Literature through the Open University, which means I do all the studying etc on my own. I don't go to any lectures or have classes, I got sent all my books in september and work through them each week. Anywho's I'm learning about Cézanne at the moment, who was this french impressionist painter. He's all against traditional art and that so took a stand by not painting his pictures in that style. But to be honest, I think most of his work is awful. I like traditional art that looks like it took hours to create rather then Cézanne's bathers, which just look like blobs of awful colour. Like seriously its hideous. Stranger still I should like this. I like things that go against the norm. In film studies I loved Surrealist films. Buñuel is a genius, who needs a linear structure? No one, that's who. But I don't. I hate it. And worse then that. I have to write 500 words on this crap. Brilliant.
Where is my exact assignment question...
Look carefully at Cézanne's Jug and Fruit (1885-97) and Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemon's, Oranges and a Rose (1633). In no more then 500 words, outline what you think the main differences are.
This is easy. 500 words is piss easy. The painting itself is not even that bad in comparison to his other work anyway. I can write about the tone and shading and how this models the pears or whatever but I just hate it and procastinate over it because I hated having to look at all his other work, it angers me so. On the other hand, loving Zurbarán. LOVING. IT. So realistic. And doesn't look like a child painted it. The lighting looks lovely and the fruit is so detailed. This I could happily write about and not decide to play video games instead of. But no. It's also due in on the 5th. But luckily for any poor sucker reading this, I decided to spend my precious time writing about why I'm wasting my precious time.
A main point which may have crossed anyones minds is. What has art got to do with literature? Nada. The beauty of doing the OU is that you pick which modules you study. The worst part is for the 1st year. Options are pretty broad. The module is called Arts Past and Present. It includes topics from literature and classics. Yay. But also music, history, art, art history and other stuff which really isn't related to what I want to do. Lame.
Well I shall leave you now. I feel a bath or something equally that isn't me doing my assignment. Ciao.
