Berger proclaims the lack of emotion and value for a recreation of a beautiful historic painting Virgin of the Rocks, and that the real thing is actually better for not just learning the past but also influencing the future. Each one was …show more content… Any reader of Berger will see the reactions to Frans Hals masterpieces and many forms of contemporary art prove that everyone has different opinions and how each person views everything different. It is less spontaneous and natural than we tend to believe. He began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a. After serving in the British Army from 1944 to 1946, he enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art. About the author (1990) John Peter Berger was born in London, England on November 5, 1926. The process of seeing painting or seeing anything else. Ways of Seeing John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb, Richard Hollis Snippet view - 1972. Berger points out what is involved in seeing, and how the way we see things is determined by what we know. John Berger uses this example by the mention of a study done on Fran Hals showing the overall reviews of his artwork done by hundreds of volunteers. John Berger- Ways of Seeing published in 1972 and based on BBC television program. Berger strengthens that of logos, the rhetorical strategy that uses the persuasion of logic. John Berger also persuades us as well, he persuades through the use of rhetorical strategies of that logos, ethos, and pathos, to change our perspective on how we view the past and the possible long term never ending the influence of the future. Berger calls out to those who are actively doing so, the powerful upper class and the upper academicians globally. John Berger states the importance to keep original works of art, protected and not privatized. Berger is sharing his view on how the reproductions of art, and through reproducing historical and contemporary art, that it is mystifying our direct correlation to the past. This has, in turn, revealed our history, through visual communication. Berger has conjured the fact that everyone has experienced their own view of the world, throughout time. In John Berger’s essay titled “Ways of Seeing,” he shines a light on the way we collectively and individually see the world.