Thursday, 20 October 2016

Art and history

What I found in the news
According to The Guardian article "Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects", one of the biggest exam board in UK called AQA will remove art history out of their A-level subject (2016). Looking statistic, there were only 839 students took the exam this summer. The AQA spokeswomen said that removing this subject doesn't mean this subject is not importance but the subject itself is too hard, which will create risk for students.
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My response
From yesterday conversation and Aon's academic interest about history, I think that history in general is very importance in our life. I would blame the way of teaching history in school that makes children hate or forgot this wonderful and useful subject. Same as Animal Farm, it shows how the world is going on at that time and also what people thing about political system in that specific country and also there are historic importance of Russia revolution that would creates a ripple effect that leads ultimately to cold war and Cuba missile crisis, which smallest mistakes could turn the whole planet to stone age. Without Vasili Arkhipov, the captain of thermonuclear submarine, we won't live like what we live right now because he is the one who vote "no" to launching nuclear warhead. As you can see, with only one person, can change the fate of the world completely and how fragile our political systems are.

Coming back to art. Last term, I had a chance to study pop art. Art is just like history book where it records major changes in human history. Not just the events but also what cpecific artist mind is.
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Reference
Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects (2016, October 12). The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/12/last-art-history-a-level-axed-after-michael-gove-cull-of-soft-subjects?INTCMP=sfl 

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