Ernst Gombrich Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: March 30, 1909 - November 3, 2001
Birthday: March 30
Death: November 3
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
source: Ernst Hans Gombrich (2002). “The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art”, Phaidon Press
topic: Art, Abuse, Taste, Insipid, Renowned, Art Lovers
