[emmanone]

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.

[ogou]

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.

https://berlinartgalleries.de/

[changexd]

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.

[bigthymer]

I would read a blog post about this friend.