Cultural Education
21 Threads
When Vincent van Gogh started painting he didn't use bright colours — so what changed? It's a story about the importance of what we consume and the people we spend time with... ht...
Do you know the alphabets of Bhartiya language are scientific ? Each letter of the alphabet is logical & is placed sequentially with precise calculations. ◆ क ख ग घ ङ This grou...
This is The Last Judgment, painted by Michelangelo nearly 500 years ago. And it's one of the most controversial (and heavily censored) paintings of all time. Some say it's a mast...
How to read Hindu Calendar (Explained) After reading this thread- 1. U will be easily able to read Hindu calendar 2. Easily find out Hindu festival, fasts, pooja 3. Will be able t...
500 years ago there was a painter called Pieter Bruegel who changed the course of art history. And his paintings are unlike anything you've seen before... https://t.co/VuiSKPjkSA
Cinema in the 1920s was wild. It's when the film industry as we know it today was born: the studios, the stars, the genres, and the tropes. And even animation - this is from The...
👇🧵 THREAD 🧵👇 Do you know? In China, they have books to teach non-Uyghur ethnic people to learn the #Uyghurs language. https://t.co/3eC2vkNJ9Y
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, is probably the most influential work of modern art. But he didn't come up with it all himself. Picasso borrowed from...
The Vikings reached North America 500 years before Columbus. And they also sailed to Britain, Spain, Italy, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East, and... Paris. This is the story...
Why did Claude Monet paint the same water lilies in his garden more than 250 times? Well, for Monet, they were different every time... https://t.co/PnObQfPMnS
It might feel like Christmas is over, but it's only just begun. Because Christmas actually starts on the 25th December and ends on the 5th January. That's why there are Twelve Da...
An amazing illustration of Imam Omar’s Khutbah about Desires 🧵 https://t.co/dedvNImNDN
Why are cities all around the world starting to look the same? https://t.co/yf5hBkdiyh
When people talk about "Gothic architecture" we tend to think of cathedrals and churches. But the Middle Ages were also full of beautiful town halls, universities, hospitals, and...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted by Vermeer in 1665, might just be the most famous and beloved portrait in the world. But who is the girl? Well, that's the thing. There was no...
As a yoruba person, your mother must have told you to go and wear BATA before abi ? This is the story of BATA, a shoe company that was in Nigeria in the old days 😊 A thread Ret...
Analysing the architecture of Disney films: https://t.co/FAnzTdL3iR
Victor Hugo is best-known as the author of the beloved novel Les Misérables. But he was also a visionary artist who created drawings like the Octopus, from 1866. Let's enter the...
1. List of Essential Books to Read for Civilizational Education You folks were asking me about the sources of my threads and books on which I base my accounts. Here is a list of g...
The Battle of Alexander at Issus, by Albrecht Altdorfer (1529, oil on canvas, 158 x 120 cm) https://t.co/OCBsLUlHDx
How to read Hindu Calendar (Thread) After reading this thread- 1. U will be easily able to read hindu calendar 2. Easily find out Hindu festival, fasts, pooja 3. Will be able to a...
