“THE STORY OF ART” BY E.H. GOMBRICH




















(Gustav Klimt “The kiss”)

Two weeks ago, on saturday, I went to a bookshop in Elisabets street (Barcelona). I enjoyed a lot because I spent all the morning trying to find some books and, by chance, I found one really interesting: “The story of Art ” by E.H. Gombrich. This is the most famous book about art ever publisher and his author, Profesor Gombrich, was one of the most important British art historian. I recommend it because, in fact, it’s very easy to read and understand the evolution of art from the begining until nowadays. It shows you periods and styles in a easily way because the author had a wonderful aim: “this book is intended for all who feel in need of some first orientation in a strange and fascinating field...”

From my point of view (and at the moment....) the most important topic is this specific idea about art: the whole story of art in fact, is not a story about progress in technical proficiency it’s, actually, a story of changing ideas... I think this concepts is, simply brilliant.... because you can check that new themes were introduced a long the history, new methods, new artists appears, but really nothing essentially new was added... At firts glance, the paintings not look all the same, but when you watch them careflully you can realize and thinking about this idea.

Human kind, throughout the years, has always wanted to show their feelings, fears and reality using art. Nowadays it says that we are living in the age of the power of images and when you look at an ancient picture you can imagine what happened in the past. That’s the reason why I think our society has always been living the excitation of the image.

Definitely, art is the expression of the age, and this conclusion can help us to understand our evolution better.

I sincerely hope that this little and easy blog has contributed to you can love art too.

See you!

http://www.gombrich.co.uk/