off‚ each time you get a smaller and smaller golden rectangle. Leonardo Da Vinci‚ the famous mathematician and artist from the Renaissance‚ featured the golden ratio in many of his paintings. For example‚ lets take a look at the world famous "Mona Lisa". If a rectangle were drawn around her face‚ the measurements would be that of a Golden Rectangle. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio http://www.jimloy
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The quiet hum of needles is a comforting sound to some people. They see it as a way to finally be able to show people who they are‚ and what they have been to‚ without having to tell them. The feeling of needles being stabbed into skin over and over and over again may hurt‚ but they see it as a small price to pay for a few hours or days in exchange for a beautiful piece of artwork that they can carry around with them for a lifetime. The view people have on tattoos today is divided‚ with some people
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them all. Leonardo like most young artists started off as a student to Verrocchio and this is where he would he learned all his skills. Around the year 1503 Leonardo had begun to paint his most famous painting the Mona Lisa. A question asked by many people is why is the Mona Lisa the most famous it’s just a portrait? It’s not just her smile that gets peoples attention it’s the way he used the paint‚ the way he uses the darkness and the light and brings it all together. “Leonardo was fascinated
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“work of art’s aesthetic value gained through its uniqueness.” Before we even had the ability and tools to reproduce art‚ its true value was confined because it was the only one of its kind. For example‚ someone who has always heard of the Mona Lisa but never seen it reproduced holds more value than those who have seen numerous reproductions. The true value of Da Vinci’s masterpiece is secured only in its original form. Value is also instilled into artwork because of its distance‚ referring
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There are many renaissance masters that helped bring the renaissance together. Three of them are Leonardo Da Vinci‚ Albrecht Durer‚ and Jan Van Eyck. Leonardo Da Vinci was a scientist and an artist‚ Jan Van Eyck was a master of oil paintings‚ and Albert Durer was a master at perspective and fine detail. Leonardo was born on April 15‚ 1452 in Venice‚ Italy. When Leonardo was young he got little of formal education‚ but he got basic reading‚ math‚ and writing. At the age 15‚ he became an apprentice
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tend to make representational art usually are geared to think logically and analytically. Representational art contrasts with abstract art and nonrepresentational art. For instanse the Mona Lisa done by Leonardo Da Vinci is a work of representational art. It is a potrait done in oil to capture the image of Lisa Gherardini. Other works done by Leonardo Da Vinci are also representational. The picture captures what the artist sees in reality rather then what the artist want’s to exaggerate upon. When
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painted on the walls. I think‚ it is all to bring a bit of authenticity‚ to the restaurant or create a sense of ambiance‚ but if you ask me‚ it just creates a sense of gaudiness. It reminds me of Marcel Duchamp and his taking the portrait of Mona Lisa and putting a moustache and goatee on it‚ and now it is called “L.H.O.O.Q.” He is skewering the conventions of what exactly is art‚ and why is it art‚ adding graffiti to
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privileged few; rather it belongs to timeless humanity. Before I read the novel‚ I was aware of only a few painters and even fewer paintings. The few pieces of art that I knew of included the The persistence of Time‚ The Scream‚ The Starry Sky and Mona Lisa. I have often imagined Da Vinnci behind a canvass‚ smirking and cooking up a joke to share with a world‚ which is incompetent of acknowledging his genius (well Robert Langdon might have
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Leonardo Da Vinci‚ an artist and sculptor‚ was also very talented as an engineer‚ scientist‚ inventor and a religious man. He was born in the heart of the Renaissance‚ in April 15‚ 1452 near the town of Vinci‚ in Tuscan. Da Vinci‚ was not born in nobility and was son of a local lawyer. His learning started in the workshop‚ in Florence which was from an artist and sculptor named Andrea del Verrocchio. There‚ Leonardo was introduced to perspective‚ metalwork as well as‚ drawings and paintings and
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subconscious revulsion you feel when you see your child as a stranger. You look at your husband‚ and you see just a man. Your house‚ a labyrinth. These are symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease‚ which you might associate with the elderly. In the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova‚ that’s what Alice thought‚ until she was diagnosed at age 50. It is hard to imagine all the books fell into abeyance‚ but in the event it does‚ I would save this book. Why would I save this book in particular? I feel that the empowering values
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