Reading Di Vinci’s notebooks provoked conflicting ideas with my own view of the soul and how my understanding of the soul influences my perception and approach to art. On reading sections of the artist’s course of study, particularly on the eye and the appearance of things helped me even realize my own approach to painting. reinforced.
“Owing to the soul the eye is content to stay in its bodily prison for without it such bodily prison is torture”.
My interpretation from this quote is that our souls are forever trapped in our bodies as we endure a human experience and if not for our eyes as well as our other four senses we could not perceive the world around us and to have that influence creativity.
This is very different to some modern
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This was one of the easily seen visual characteristics of the renaissance period for art, embodying a realistic style and portraying scenes of everyday life and science.
“His painting should give the impression of a window through which we look out into a section of the visible world”
This is contrary to the approach of modern visionary or abstract art that is based on the transcendence of the physical object and observable world. This essay will further discuss the similarities and differences of key aspects of the renaissance movement in art and todays abstract approach.
“perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting” For the renaissance, the drawings were purely based on perspective which is “nothing more than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye” .The Renaissance renewed the development of pictorial and linear perspective in painting , creating depth and illusion on a two dimensional surface such as canvas. This perspective was based on that of the human eye and how it viewed outward space and distance. The artist could portray this with the use of a vanishing point and foreshortening of figures and different representations of light and reflection on different surfaces. A good example of this work would be Di Vincis Last