Ernst Hans Gombrich Art History

Ernst Hans Gombrich art history

 Making a small comparison between the many readings that throughout history have talked about art, the world -recognized historian Ernst Hans Gombrich presents “Art History” one of his best works published in 1950, which through 27 chapters transports Readers to obtain new knowledge, in which not only artistic compositions are studied, but also seeks to transcend the social and cultural contexts that allowed the correct development of the thousands of works that have been carried out over time , evidencing in each chapter in a surprising and detailed way the analysis of the lifestyles of the different times, for this reason the first chapter of this seducer and entertaining book will be used respectively, called “strange beginnings” and how this It allows to examine the theme covered from several perspectives, something that art texts usually do not offer the public.

The chapter that begins with this interesting adventure around the contexts lived around history recounts in a persuasive way, one of the first manifestations of art in history, which today is undervalued by some movements of modern art, despite theMost people in the world are clear that the paleolithic era was the time when Homo sapiens began to make cave paintings, which consist of the representation of reality and the experiences of hunters. However, Gombrich states that these manifestations to others describe their lifestyle, thought that when illustrating themselves with weapons and animals, they would have total control over their prey, to which he describes as "image power" thatNowadays in small primitive tribes, it is still observed as well as the ideology of “the utility above all”, since according to Gombrich (1950) the primitive tribes had as its main objective that the created objects had to fulfill a function, that is,Being useful and the aesthetic was left to theCulture and beliefs, keeping the ideology of "the utility above all", firm to its cultural identity and the legacy of its predecessors.

In this sense, the author did a splendid work explaining not only the composition of each work, but also emphasizes and allows the reader to imagine the lifestyle that these societies supported, thus showing that each work has a hidden sense and depends on usfind it either reading this excellent book or consulting on the context in which these communities developed in order to open the mind to new knowledge that contributes to universal cultural and historical identity.