Cerco a la Pintura, by José Luis Viñas, is an essay for young people or simply curious people who want an approach to the world of painting in its historical, anthropological, aesthetic and existential aspects. The raison d'être of the Painting is approached through four chapters loosely located in four historical moments: the buried Painting dives in the rock art and in the painted tombs of Antiquity; Venerated Painting deals with the art of icons in Christian temples; The represented painting establishes the existing parallels between the pictorial and the theatrical from the Renaissance to the 20th century; and finally, the torn painting, traces several paths of pictorial dissolution that have become evident in the most contemporary art. An introduction and an epilogue help frame this journey and put it in relation to our daily experience. The language used in the book is accessible without renouncing its thoroughness and its poetic height; because the author has tried that this text serves above all as a call or incitement for the reader, who later will undoubtedly find abundant specific literature on the various topics covered in the work.