They were quite general, providing an overview of everything from cave paintings to comtemporary stuff
= a grounding for anyone wishing to switch their honours subjects (Scottish unis allow to you make some drastic changes subject wise if you want to; I applied to do English Lit., but I could have ended up with a degree in Art History or Economics or Modern Languages).

It's hard to describe what I like. As with music, I'm a huge fan of anything from the last 100 years and not so keen on the big players like the Renaissance lot (I prefer the earlier Renaissance/pre-Renaissance guys over heavyweights like Raphael etc.; nice technique, but Mossacio is more expressive).

I have a love/hate thing with contemporay art. I can appreciate the aesthetic value of anything (and the finish on professional contemporary art pieces is often extremely good), but I don't like the politics and the patronage and the confusion between subjectivity and objectivity etc. (if someone doesn't like X, then I'm the kind of person that is more interested in finding out why their opinion differs from mine instead of berating them for being ignorant and/or philistines because they don't like this so-called great artwork.)

Could go on forever etc.
( custard, Sat 30 May 2009, 5:00, archived)