So I finally stopped procrastinating and finished my assignment today. Yay me. And then I decided to finish off some off the chapter about Cézanne and when I say finish I mean skim briefly to see if there were any important bits I should have included. There weren't it was just about his life, but why skimming, I see the name Rilke quickly and then have to read the rest to make sense of it. But basically Rainer Maria Rilke is a austrian poet who I love and have done for probably 2 years, he;'s not well known, not even in Germany, that's a story for another time, anyway. Basically Rilke went to see Cézanne's work numerous times to try and understand he emotions and grasp what was happening. For some reason the fact that Rilke felt moved by Cézanne's work really moved me and made me look at Cézanne's work and modern art in a different light and actually thought that Jug and Fruit was quite good. I know, I know, I seem like a hypocrite, but surely this is what it means to learn. I have learnt to appreciate art that I hadn't done before. I mean I still think most of it is pretty rubbish, but I don't hate it with so much passion anymore. (:
Starting friday is my next topic, which is about Faraday, thanks to the wonderful invention that is wikipedia, this is the first piece of information I see;
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Brilliant. I like science, I used to want to be a forensic scientist back in say 2008 but not every teacher is as good as I had for my GCSE so that didn't pan out all to well, and besides I couldn't imagine doing anything but writing now. But I digress. Science has always interest in me so this seems like a nice week, it's a shame that not all the things I learn about are assignment based, like Doctor Faustus.
In my second week, I had to read the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Excellent, some literature, something I can really enjoy, also relates to the supernatural, and at the time I was watching Supernatural and cross road blues was the episode in question so all this faustian mythology really played in quite well with my life. ANYWAY. So all I had to do was read the play. There was no analysing of voices or texts, no deeper reading to why Marlowe damned him to hell and why he didn't repent. Bit of a let down really. I spent £9.99 on that book to read and do nothing with. Shocking to say the least. Although 'all skills will be used in the future'. Which means we have some literature to read that is clearly very hard to understand. Marlowe was born the same year as Shakespeare, (and paved the way for him to) and so it's all old english where you can only really get the gist and not the detail of what's going on.
But as I was saying it is quite annoying. Faraday seems like a nice lad and all that. And I have a busy life, so it seems pointless to me to even bother when it's not for anything. I'm going to sleep now. I have work at an ungodly hour (8)
Ciao
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