They can be used to make arguments or points that are very different. Paintings are still and silent and because their meaning is no longer attached to them, but has become transmittable, paintings lend them selves to easy manipulation. He’s acts like a man who is really into art and explains the way of seeing that we all felt, but never knew why we felt it.Īnother interesting point he makes is that classic paintings done during the renaissance have a very striking feel when you look at them in silence. Its this type of theory that makes John Berger so fascinating. The painting travels to you now rather you travel to the painting.
Nowadays a photo of the painting can be put into a book or the internet and you can see it whenever and wherever you want. In the old days, the painting remained in one place where people would travel to see it. He simply explains all the reasons of why we feel certain feelings when we look at ether the image or real thing, as well as explain how things have changed since the invention of the camera.
However there is much more to it, the TV show “Ways of seeing” hosted by John Berger goes through all the details about the difference between a real painting and one we see in a picture. When it comes to looking at a painting ether in a book or in a gallery, I never really thought much about the main difference between the two.
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