Ruskin y la definición del estilo en la arquitectura / Ruskin and the definition of architectural styles

    Si el termino "humanista" puede aplicarse al Siglo XIX John Ruskin sería uno de los principales representantes europeos. Crítico de arte, patrón, artista, pensador y filántropo, Ruskin es conocido entre otras publicaciones por Las siete lámparas de la arquitectura o Las piedras de Venecia. Su teoría arquitectónica consideraba la restauración como la mayor causa de destrucción que un edificio podía sufrir. Consideraba la arquitectura como un ser vivo más que debía morir. Las ruinas eran por lo tanto el último estadio de la arquitectura.

John Ruskin, 1879

There's (no) accounting for taste

    “A longlife interest” is a book that contains the interview performed by the french philosopher Didier Eribon to the great Ernst Gombrich from 1991 to 1992 in his residence at London. Art and Science are interlaced by gombrich’s words, as a Twentieth Century Leonardo, who doesn't find any trouble bringing one into line with another. Gombrich used to make reference to others writers and thinkers in order to strenghten his thoughts and is here where I have found one of the more significant texts I have read these months. These words have come to us from “Orator” by Cicero, roman writer, politician and great rethoric from 1st century. His ideas about “Taste”, are suitable nowadays and this makes one to think how little can be written about Aesthetic these days. This paragraph is about artistic “Taste” and you are not going to find here any important conclusión but simple thoughts about “Taste” and art perception we hold nowadays. The words here: