John Berger

Ways of Seeing
Berger states that the invention of the camera ‘destroyed the idea that images were timeless’ I disagree. Photography is just as timeless as any art. I prefer this medium.
The charts on 147 are interesting. The more educated seem to appreciate art more. It’s funny that museums remind people of church. This is probably a dated view.
I don’t really understand the point of this essay. Is he saying that reproductions can’t be as good as the real things? Why the hell not?

On Rembrandt’s Woman in Bed
It’s funny how berger talks about it being strange that historians speculate the age of the model, and yet he does it himself.
“They are paintings which speak of his love, not of hers.” Descriptive and beautiful concept.
Writing about art is weird. It’s his opinion and again I don’t see the point really.

On Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew
Berger’s writing is easy to read, but who reads it? Why do people want an interpretation of art and not just create the story in their own minds? Are the stories he puts behind these pictures accurate, or is he just guessing?