I’ve recently moved to Europe and found myself surrounded by hundreds of famous galleries, which are essentially the main entertainment here.
I started visiting them and looking at classical paintings, little by little googling what it was and why. It turned out to be so exciting!
Now, a year later, I can say for sure which of the women with a severed male head in their hands in the painting is Judith and which is Salome. And I understand much better how people lived in these parts before, and why they live the way they do now.
Therefore, I completely agree with the author of the article - sometimes you need to plunge into the unknown, and this unknown will reward you.
I’m afraid to imagine how many discoveries await me in museums of contemporary art.
As an artist and technologist living in Europe, I am glad to see a comment like this. It's refreshing. An open-minded and incremental approach to culture can be incredibly rewarding.
I can relate so much! Went to Uffizi once, I wondered why so many people were lining up to get in because I had zero clue about art at the time, after deciding to actually take a look in the museum with audio guide, I spent almost 4 hours in Uffizi though I didn't have many clues about lots of them, I was just trying to "feel" the pieces, years later, I finally started to read books about art and suddenly I had this amazing realization of "wow isn't that art that I've seen before?" then it all makes sense now, it's one of the best feeling ever, now I usually just go checkout museums, venues or whatever it is because I know even though I cannot appreciate the art at the moment, some day in the future I'll be glad that I take the chance to look at it.
I started visiting them and looking at classical paintings, little by little googling what it was and why. It turned out to be so exciting!
Now, a year later, I can say for sure which of the women with a severed male head in their hands in the painting is Judith and which is Salome. And I understand much better how people lived in these parts before, and why they live the way they do now.
Therefore, I completely agree with the author of the article - sometimes you need to plunge into the unknown, and this unknown will reward you.
I’m afraid to imagine how many discoveries await me in museums of contemporary art.