It reduced everything to the equality of objects”. The Equality of Objects “Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo”, circa 1503-1506, by Leonardo Da Vinci via Wikimedia Commonsīerger asserts that “Oil paintings did to appearances what capital did to social relations. The motto of mystification is that of the ‘Human condition’, that of timeless truths about people which are the subject of the classics.
This type of ahistorical framework obstructs any alternative explanation. Specifically, Berger analyzes mystification in artistic interpretation where works of art are separated from their social context, of the connections between artist/art and are instead explained via elements of their composition, as though the value of a piece of art can be decoded by analyzing style, color, contrast, perspective and so on. For Berger, a painting or even a photo reveals a subject who was, at that moment, worth being captured by a person who has a direct relationship to the scene. This resulted in a disconnected view of history, one which is sterilized, decontextualized and robbed from its “viewing angle”. Our relationship to history has been mystified by the ruling classes to justify their role in society and how they got there.
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