Senior Seminar in Art History
Project Journal
Fall 2012
At the beginning of my undergraduate career, I wasn't sure what I wanted to major in or exactly what I wanted my future career to be. I ultimately decided to major in History with a minor in Art History. After my first semester at my previous college, before I transfered to Columbia, I switched my minor of Art History to my major. I no longer was satisfied with History as my major because I wanted to associate visual images with the history. I planned on pursing my master's degree in Library Science, but I am not sure if that is still what I would like to do. I hope that this capstone course will help me decide if that is what I would really like to do.
Through my previous coursework, I have discovered that I am really fascinated by colonial art and religious art and architecture. I am interested in exploring how images set within colonial culture and religion have shaped the cultural ideal and what is accepted as a cultural norm. I would like to find meaning in how religious art has shaped a culture's beliefs. I have found that I also am interested in European Baroque, but even more Baroque Architecture in Mexico. I wonder if the churches from earlier periods still have the same influence in the culture as they once had.
In the Senior Seminar Capstone, I hope to further explore methods of art history and how to research certain types on imagery. How do we decide what type of image is more valued than another? Does it depend on the time and place the object/image was made? I hope that my path in this capstone will help to answer some of these questions that I have. I also hope to find a topic or specific art/artist that I would like to further explore on a deeper level.
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