Identify your interests and deepen your knowledge — download your favorite music releases, add new books to your library, watch online screenings of world brands and keep a note of must-see films (from classics to recently released films).
At the same time, it is not necessary to remember every screening or all the tracks from the album. It is important to learn to catch signals, note the main idea and unusual techniques.
When listening thoughtfully to Billie Eilish’s latest album Hit me Hard and Soft, you can notice references to the work of Lana Del Rey — some tracks even have similar names (for example, Birds of a Feather). And if you translate the title (“Birds of the same flight”), it is easy to develop the idea of the relationship between the work of the two singers: Eilish noted in an interview that she really likes the sound of Lana Del Rey and was her fan as a child.
In a comprehensive approach to the study of art, theory is everything. If you have the desire and self-discipline, you can take several theoretical courses, for example, on painting and sculpture. These are available in large museums, creative studios, or on online portals (for example, lectures by art critic Paola Volkova).
Or you can go from the specific to the general – inspired by an exhibition in a museum, study the biographies of artists, their style and stages of their creative path. And so gradually, albeit fragmentarily, deepen your knowledge, combining emotional and rational experiences of perception. It is also useful to read books on the topic. “Art. Why It’s a Masterpiece” by Andy Pankhurst and Lucinda Hawksley will tell you in detail what is beautiful about, for example, the “Mona Lisa”, and in “Styles of World Art” famous art critics analyze the main trends: from classical to modern.