The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.