There are always new things to discover.
They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredicatble as real human beings.It is an exciting world of it's own with its own strange laws and it's own adventures.Nothing perhaphs is more important than just this:that to enjoy these works we must have a frshmind,one which is ready to catch every hint and to respond to evry hidden harmony:a mind,most of all,not clutteredup with long high-sourcing words and ready-made phrases.
It is infinitely better not to know anything about art than to heve the kind of half knowledge which makes for snobbishness.
Knowing something of this history helps us to understand why artists worked in a perticular way,or why they aimed at certain effects.
Most of all it is agood way of leaning to enjoy them in their own right.But no way is without its dangers.One sometimes sees people walking through a gallery,catalogue in hand.Every time they stop in frond of a picture they eagerly search for a it's number.
Learning about art is a help to open eyes,not to loosen tongues.
But to look at a picture with fresh eyes and the venture on a voyage of discovery into it is a far more difficult but also a much more rewarding task.
There is no telling what one might bring home from such a journey.
text
from the book
The Story of Art
( E.H Gombrich - Phaidon )
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