His influence will be felt for decades to come. He believed that the enjoyment and appreciation of art should not be saved for a privileged, pretentious few who thought their perceptions and tastes to be the standard. This was no doubt governed by his notably Marxist outlook on life. , Berger popularised the attitude that art should be for all. Berger sums up the inherent hypocrisy in images of women created for the patriarchal male gaze: Berger argues that the systemic objectification of women in visual art has continued from the oil paintings of centuries past, into the films and advertisements of recent times. It�۪s his writing in the depiction of women in art that is most enduring. The modern interrogation of centuries-old oil paintings was a milestone in cultural theory. His book Ways of Seeing, of the same title as the TV docu-series is a ubiquitous reading list choice for many third level students of arts and humanities. The 90-year-old artist, critic and writer, who passed away on January 2nd in Paris, leaves behind a rich and noble legacy of compassion learning - and a disdain for exclusive cultural gatekeeping.He argued that the way a work of art was perceived differed depending on the person who was perceiving it, and that your own ideology and background guided your absorption of cultural artefacts. John Berger was a man who forged a path to help dismantle the notion of art being something for an elite few. John Berger (5 November 1926 �� 2 January 2017)

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