Travelling, getting educated, Vilnius University

Isn't that what a tasty traveller as opposed to a tacky tourist does? Learn stuff? One is never too old to immerse oneself in subjects of passion (yeah yeah that too, stop tittering and just behave at the back).

So it wouldn't happen in the UK where you can just rock up and walk straight into a university, no security no signing in, not sure what to expect, thinking it was going to be a rather gloomy and depressing visit, boring old paintings and all that.

So here we are in the University of Vilnius, in the Aistėnai Hall, in the Faculty of Philology, admiring an extensive fresco called "The Seasons of the Year" by artist Petras Repšys.

I learnt a new word here "philology", I take most words that end in -ology with a pinch of salt, sort of like a made up word for people who can't get a proper degree to secure a proper job.

"Philology", the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages.

Fuck me, academia for academia's sake.
I rest my case!

I'm just here to look at boobies

There was an awful lot of superb auto-erotica painting, or porn for posh people if you like.
Let's invent a new word:
Pornology

The ceiling was mainly a dark blue colour to create an illusion of more space in the low-ceilinged area. Whereas the walls mainly ~~rich cream ~~ magnolia and beige.

The Seasons of the Year, was started in 1976 and was completed in 1984, it is designed to to commemorate extinct Baltic tribes and their mythology.

I guess the painter had a very vivid immagination

There seems to be a story in every little montage

It looks very dark subject matter very thought provoking but at the end of the day a different kind of art.

In the USSR pornography was illegal, suppressed, and classed as anti-Soviet with production and distribution criminal offences It existed almost entirely as an underground black market for smuggled foreign magazines and videotapes, or paint on walls maybe?