Experience #1 Visual literacy/ visual representation - Art in humanities

Much like many of my other experiences, this one also takes place during my freshman year of college. During my freshman year of college I was really determined to fulfill my general Education classes instead of actually pursuing a major which now I realize wasn't the greatest of ideas, but hey we live and we learn I guess (lol @ me having to be a super senior). One of the general education classes that I took was an 'Art in Humanities' class where we learned about the history of art throughout civilization and how it created different social movements. Here is a list of most of the artists that we covered: 

Salvador Dali

Andy Warhol

Grant Wood

Jeff Koons

Richard Long

Paul Etienne Lincoln

Henri Matisse

Erte (Roman de Tirtoff)

Zaha Hadid

Agnes Martin

Willie Birch

Shana Moulton

Ansel Adams

Ronald Ventura

Banksy

Pablo Picasso

Brancusi

Wolfgang Tillmans

Barnett Newman

Owyed Alowyed

Alexey Titarenko

Paul Villinski

The Guerrilla Girls

Francis Picabia

Li Qing

Avni Arbas

Diego Rivera

Alex Grey

Sidney Hutter

Steve McCurry

Rosalyn Drexler

Kara Walker

Takashi Murakami

Dan Flavin

Alex Beard

Chelsea Culprit

Carolee Schneemann

Rene Magritte

Ralph Meatyard

By learning about all of these I learned about how art is a powerful thing in this world and can start/end whole movements in civilization. We did projects based off of certain artists artworks and put our own twist on them to change the meaning of what we being told visually through our artwork. I think that I could use this knowledge to maybe take a break from writing papers and reading books and allow students in my class to express themselves using an art project and tell a story through the artwork rather than words themselves. This class in total opened my eyes to how literacy is not always just in words written on paper, and that is something that is not always recognized.