Ernst H. Gombrich on Abstract Painting

Ernst H. Gombrich on Abstract Painting

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<p>Ernst H. Gombrich criticized abstract painting with several remarks scattered around his wide oeuvre. I argue that his view of abstract paintings is coherent with the account of pictorial representation he put forward in <em>Art and Illusion</em>, show some limits of such view,...

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Main Author: Elisa Caldarola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2015-11-01
Series:Aisthesis
Subjects:
Ernst H. Gombrich
abstract art
pictorial representation
“making and matching”
Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/17566
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Summary:<p>Ernst H. Gombrich criticized abstract painting with several remarks scattered around his wide oeuvre. I argue that his view of abstract paintings is coherent with the account of pictorial representation he put forward in <em>Art and Illusion</em>, show some limits of such view, and maintain that, although several of Gombrich’s criticisms of abstract painting should be rejected, some of his remarks are insightful and worth of consideration.</p>
ISSN:2035-8466

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