The Huskerboard High Culture thread

[Redux]

I've always enjoyed Shakespeare, Macbeth inparticular as well as Taming of the Shrew.

Artwork I like anything before it was decided a couple lines slapped on the canvas is art. Van Gogh, Pollock, Dali, Michaelangelo.

 

[knapplc]

If there's one thing seeing the Mona Lisa in person taught me, it's that nothing is awesome/amazing/worthy of note. Lots of people may think X or Y is cool, and it may have a great worldwide reputation, but if you don't like it, that's completely cool. Some things just don't impact some people, and there's nothing at all wrong with that.

For me, the coolest thing is stone. I love to touch it - punch it, even - and fell the solidity, the permanence. We toured Begnac castle, and just running my hands along the stone as we passed through was neater than most things we saw in the Louvre.

Like what you like. Don't let anyone else's opinion on something impact your opinions. Your opinion on what you like is more valid than any expert's.

 

[GSG]

I listen to this sometimes at work. It makes me want to punch things less

 

[GSG]

And I've always thought harpsichords were super badass

 

[GM_Tood]

The Hall of Mirrors, Versailles. One of the most, if not the most, impressive sights I have ever seen.

Other Versailles pics.

From a strictly artsy point I like the works of many of the Italian High Renaissance artists: Michaelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, etc.

'Old Books'...sad to say anything other than books we had to read in High School/College I have not really been into it.

 

[knapplc]

The Hall of Mirrors was being renovated when we went.

 

[walksalone]

The Mona Lisa is the reason I was asked to leave the Louvre...

 

[Excel]

The Hall of Mirrors was being renovated when we went.

That's embarrassing.

 

[NUance]

Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands

British Museum - The Rosetta Stone

 

[carlfense]