#e.h. gombrich

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1396

first posted in facebook february 4, 2025

parmigianino -- "madonna with the long neck" (ca. 1540)

"make me feel real loose like a long-necked goose" … the big bopper

"the painter, in his eagerness to make the holy virgin look graceful and elegant, has given her a neck like that of a swan" … e.h. gombrich

"lady madonna, baby at your breast wonders how you manage to feed the rest" … paul mccartney

"ain't nothin' in the world like a long-necked girl" … al janik

[suchshapingfantasies]

Tuscan master, Head of Chris, c.1175-1225

Figure 8

[metaphrasis]

Actually I do not think that there are any wrong reasons for liking a statue or a picture. Someone may like a landscape painting because it reminds him of home, or a portrait because it reminds him of a friend. There is nothing wrong with that. All of us, when we see a painting, are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence out likes and dislikes. As long as these memories help up to enjoy what we see, we need not worry. It is only when some irrelevant memory makes us prejudiced, when we instinctively turn away from a magnificent picture of an alpine scene because we dislike climbing, that we should search our mind for the reason for the aversion which spoils a pleasure we might otherwise have had. There are wrong reasons for disliking a work of art.

— E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art  

[artsnquotes]

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.

E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art

[suchshapingfantasies]

Pieter de Hooch

Interior with a woman peeling apples, 1663

Figure 4

[thesandpiper]

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

1950

[sacredbathos]

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

- E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: a Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

[leitordossonhos]

Resenha | A História da Arte - E. H. Gombrich

Olá, Sonhadores! Fazia muito tempo que eu estava de olho nesse livro, pois eu super me interesso por arte, mas confesso que tinha uma grande deficiência no conhecimento sobre a História dela. E esse é um livro caro. Demorei pra adquirir porque fiquei meses esperando entrar em promoção. Mas a espera valeu a pena, eu adquiri o livro e já começo dizendo que não é a toa que ele é considerado um dos…

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