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The Last Post

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This is the first time that I must write a blog. It was a great experience because I had never written in english in this way. I think that I've evolved a lot since my first blog until now. I remember that in my first blog I didn't know what to write or how to do it, besides I was a very insecure and slow at the time of writing. But, now I'm faster at the time of writing, my language is more fluent and I have learned more vocabulary, also I remembered grammar rules that I had forgotten for lack of practice. Something that I liked a lot was to read the post of my classmates because they wrote about very varied and often very personal topics. After reading them, I knew a little about their lives, such as topics that interest them, anecdotes or personal stories. It was a surprise in some of them. Also, I enjoyed seeing the images of the post of my classmates because there were very varied photos of each other, like landscapes, artistic work of my classmates or family pictures...

Contemporary Art

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Since last year I have enjoyed studying History of Art because it has been very interesting and I have learned a lot. We have reviewed artistic periods and movements such as Renaissance, Baroque and Romanticism. This semester, in addition to History of Art, I have a new subject that is Theoretical Seminar, in which we are reviewing Contemporary Art. It has become my new favorite subject because we are reviewing others types of artistic expressions that defy the canon of the Academy. Before this subject, Contemporary Art was difficult for me to understand or I did not know what the artists wanted to say. However, I understand now that they are polemic artistic expression that respond, criticize and sometimes mock what is considered "good art" within the classical canon. Even, there are artists who do not want to say anything with their work, which is also a way to go against the canon. This reaction leads to new forms of artistic expressions and thus legitimizing other materia...