VCUarts Qatar’s Fall 2022 applications process is closing soon – however seats are still available in the Art History programme, a four-year bachelor’s programme that is growing in relevance in Qatar, due to its ability to connect the history of art and cultural production to today’s expanding cultural industry and landscape.
Recent graduate Sharifa Belal, who graduated from VCUarts Qatar in May of 2021, shares her own experience and sets the record straight as to what students gain from the major, and why it is a solid choice as the basis for a rewarding career.
“Art history is a study/subject that involves everything around us,” says the Class of 2021 graduate. “Art History connects with all the visuals, illustrations, buildings, paintings, basically all our surroundings. It challenges us to analyse and interpret objects and artwork created in a specific time or era.
“In my case, I was drawn to the subject, as I was always intrigued by how people have used art and design to capture moments around them, ordinary and extraordinary, for posterity,” she adds. “To me, everything I see around me is part of that history – every person and place has evolved, and is defined, through visual or verbal representations of their pasts. And hence, choosing to study the subject has been one of the best decisions I have taken so far, because it’s given me a better appreciation of human behavior, specifically, and humanity, in general,” she added.
“Art history is a study/subject that involves everything around us,” says the Class of 2021 graduate. “Art History connects with all the visuals, illustrations, buildings, paintings, basically all our surroundings. It challenges us to analyse and interpret objects and artwork created in a specific time or era.
“In my case, I was drawn to the subject, as I was always intrigued by how people have used art and design to capture moments around them, ordinary and extraordinary, for posterity,” she adds. “To me, everything I see around me is part of that history – every person and place has evolved, and is defined, through visual or verbal representations of their pasts. And hence, choosing to study the subject has been one of the best decisions I have taken so far, because it’s given me a better appreciation of human behavior, specifically, and humanity, in general,” she added.
