Welcome to Litsy!

This was an incredible book, but a total sausage fest.

It gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for being an inspiring, colourful, accessible, engaging volume, and for giving me a grounding in art knowledge that I didn't think possible from one book.

Art is discussed from a Eurocentric position, only ONE female artist is featured and some of the language is culturally insensitive to the modern ear, but this remains an outstanding work.

Thirsty for more now!

Educating ourselves on the history of art.

Pickles says that whilst appreciating the vitality of Rubens' work, she finds it a bit grainy and aesthetically prefers the softness in the portraiture of Raphael...

Just kidding. She's a philistine.

#picklescat #catsoflitsy

Trying to read about the history of art when a wild Circlefloof appeared 😐

#picklescat #catsoflitsy

I'm getting a bit of a whistle-shop tour of the history of architecture with The Story of Art.

Gombrich explains things in a simplified, narrative way that makes it easy to understand. I'm hoping this will help me when I go back to the more complicated books on architecture that I was struggling to digest.

I'm looking forward to getting to the paintings though.

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo

And here's my Bookspin board for Feb.

Feb always flies past so I'm not expecting a Bingo (I was only one off last month!) Still, there are a few lining up nicely...

#NovemberNarrative @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#ArtMuseumDay

This book is considered one of the best texts on the subject. Noted for being clear and simple and perfect for the everyday day person.

I finished this book after a year hiatus. It‘s exactly what you‘d guess -a history of art, although it largely focuses on the western tradition beginning with the Egyptians and Greeks up to the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the “anti-art” of the Dadaists. Gombrich‘s style is extremely accessible to unfamiliar audiences like me who were curious to know who made what in which style for what motivations or message. Plenty of illustrations.

Long weekends!

Look at this beautiful vintage beast I just picked up from the library!!

Six huge boxes full of books are in my mother's attic and again I have only one suitcase and a maximum of 23kg. Today I wasn't able to find all the books I want to take back to Japan with me, but tomorrow's another day 😉

The art world can be intimidating, especially for people like me who want to learn, but know almost nothing. This book was an amazing introduction. It's a friendly, non-judgmental, accessible read with tons of pictures. A nice survey of mostly western art. A must read for novices.