Olivia Magarro Mrs. Adair English 9CP 13 May 2024 Home is the Heart A grand white house with a well kept big yard in an affluent neighborhood. In Sandra Cisnero’s House on Mango Street, Esperanza dreams of a nice house but instead moves to Mango Street, a low income area and a house under her expectations. Moving to Mango leaves Esperanza discouraged because she cares about the appearance of her home; moreover, she wants a place of her own. With the help of her unique neighbors, she grew to realize home is more than just a place.
During this time period, artists developed specific characteristics in their work, such as realistic proportions and high attention to detail. On of the most influential figures of his time was Leonardo da Vinci, He studied mechanics, anatomy and painting, in all of which he excelled. Specifically, Leonardo da Vinci developed several anatomical studies and figure studies
This background is called Sfumato. More of this kind of work art style was shown in his work and later was his trademark. As his paintings grew popular so did his inventions. According to Clifford Johnson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of Southern California, says “Leonardo made great contributions to science and,” With
Leonardo da Vinci had perform different techniques to complete his master pieces. According to Bishop “Across the whole picture is a hazy aura created by the use of sfumato, a shading technique in which outlines are slightly blurred. Sfumato, also used to supreme effect in the Mona Lisa, imitated the effects of human vision, and was Leonardo’s own variation on the chiaroscuro technique developed by Masaccio and other early Renaissance masters”(pg.207). In
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of both science and art, which in turn brought a curiosity to all that he did. He studied light, shadows, perspective and many other subjects that would help the images he was painting to appear more lifelike. He had many questions involving light and showing and how to portray it accurately on canvas. In one of Da Vinci’s notebooks he drew pictures of lighted candles showing the principles of light and shadow he learned. One principle being that a shadow cast at the highest light will be the shortest.
Optics is the study of the eyes and da Vinci closely studied the eyes and also their connections to light. Da Vinci discovered many things within the study optics and light, such as, discovering that light changes how an object is seen (Reed 32/33). For example, the color of one object may be affected by the color of another object and then there is not one actual color. After doing a large amount of work involving optics and light, da Vinci formed a couple conclusions about the topics. One conclusion he made was, objects near the eye will appear larger than those at a distance.
In the course of our history, for various reasons and using various materials, man has been representing the world in which he lives. He showed an interest in representation of the image itself, in addition to painting portraits were also represented in the form of sculptures, busts and reliefs. From the Paleolithic man shows the fascination with human figures, which were retratas on cave walls. And this theme continues to exist on our art history. In Egyptian art the kings were portrayed in a splendid way, the sculpture-portraits express the ideal look that belongs to the king.
The artist’s work in the baroque period often resemble dramatic artworks that sought to draw the viewer into the image, also images employ high contrast of light and shadow as well as a fluidity that were absent in Renaissance art. Baroque creates a strong sense of liveliness, spirit and attraction. And the churches of the baroque churches tend to be richly decorated and the elements in the structure are used more freely than Renaissance. An iconic artist in the renaissance period was Leonardo da Vinci intended to further perfect the aspects of pictorial art (lighting, linear and atmospheric perspective, characterization and foreshortening, anatomy) that had preoccupied artists of the Early Renaissance, His adoption of oil paint as his primary
Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance art Leonardo da Vinci was an inspiring Renaissance artist who is known for his most famous works including the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.” Da Vinci studied laws of science and nature, which educated him on including the fundamentals in his art as a painter, sculptor, and architect. (Da Vinci's early life and career helped produce well-liked art during the Renaissance. His work inspired many during the Renaissance with his prestigious artwork, making him a dominant artist during the Italian Renaissance due to being the first to believe the art was connected to science and nature.
Perspective Art is used to signify three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface such as a piece of paper to make it realistic. The first known perspective was created by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1415 and it was a painting of the baptistery in Florence, Italy. Perspective was invented in Florence, Italy by Brunelleschi. Linear perspective was also famously used by Leonardo Da Vinci when he created The Last Supper between 1495 – 1498 because the painting has a single vanishing point which leads into the horizon. Another artist that used linear perspective in their artwork was Masaccio who famously painted the Tribute Money in 1425.
Geometry was used to design the painting and perfect it. Raphael began instigate the concept aerial perspective into his work. This method of perspective shows farther away objects as being small than those up close. The men within the painting use a variety of educational tools, emphasising that education is a major theme of the painting. It focused on the beauty of man and the mystery of the natural world by showing how science played its role.
The artists moved away from the darkness and into the light, massing their paintings with lush landscapes of nature, provoking the viewers to think and observe and feel and experience rather than believing in all that was already established. For example, in Mona Lisa, Lenoardo Da Vinci focused on the expression of a woman, whose identity neither served as nobility nor an icon. She’s portrayed to wear no jewels, nor do her plain black clothes signify any kind of wealth or position. In fact Leonardo has portrayed this mere woman; casting light on her face with his exemplary skill, focusing on her expression more than anything else, unveiling the actuality that whoever this woman is, be it a peasant or a noble; the fact of the matter is that as an individual she is seated alone, looking at the viewer in the eye, an offence that was at the time was that a woman was not supposed to look at a man directly in the eye. It stands without reason that Leonardo meant to convey the individuality of this woman without the trappings of the power that was held on every woman of the society during that time, forcing the viewer to observe this woman as a distinct human being, just the way
I remember when I was a little boy and we had an art class in the middle school, and the teacher introduced the work of Leonardo da Vince, from that day I decided to study graphic design. For that reason, I decided to work on “The work of Leonardo da Vinci on perspective, lights, shadow and color in painting” One of the things that motivated Leonardo da Vinci was his love for the beauty of the world. On his desire to express what he saw, he stared to be very descriptive in his paintings, bringing to live his expressions. One of the steps of the science has made an observation.
In order to get a spatially realistic scene, that is, coherent in depth, Leonardo used lines perpendicular to the plane of the picture that converge towards a vanishing point and horizontal lines, obtained by calculating the scale at which they recede back. He wrote and described perspective as being a phenomenon whereby “all objects transmit their image to the eye by a pyramid of lines”. His approach to design the architectural space in The Last Supper is intriguing, that is, the way he organized the figures in relation to the architecture. The reason behind this, is because he arranged the features of the fresco according to musical harmonies.
(Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa) What most people do not know about Leonardo was that paintings and art was not his main focus he was actually an anatomist and also an engineer which art helped him pursue. He used his art to draw out all the parts of machines and of the human body to understand more of how they worked and fit together. He would draw small gears and parts in a bigger scale to show detail which also helped to understand more which was
