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L’ENFANCE DE LÉONARD DE VINCI ET SES PREMIÈRES OEUVRES
Savant et créateur incomparable, Leonardo était le seul artiste de l'histoire de l'humanité à avoir plongé dans la plus radieuse beauté et à unir la science d'Aristote à l'art de Phidias.
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Leonardo Da Vinci – The Master of Science
The text below is the excerpt of the book Leonardo Da Vinci, written by Eugène Müntz, published by Parkstone International. An alliance between art and science was no new thing in Italy. Minds trained in the incomparable gymnasium of classic education could attack the most various tasks without danger of a check. In such an enterprise the painter of the Last Supper and the sculptor of the Sforza statue could justify himself by the example of many a famous Italian. Brunellesco had been an ardent student of mathematics; Piero della Francesca of geometry; Alberti had composed the Ludi Matematici and invented a way of measuring the depth of the sea…
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Leonardo: “The laws of the Italian Renaissance, and the geometry of universal beauty”.
A profound savant and an incomparable creator, Leonardo was the only artist in the history of mankind who has delved into the most radiant beauty and who has united the science of Aristotle with the art of Phidias.
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Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait." - James Whistler
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There's only one Mona Lisa! Why a 10-year study got it all wrong
After a decade of research, a scientist claims to have found the portrait of another woman under Leonardo’s greatest work. Here’s why he’s so mistaken Who is the Mona Lisa, really? There are two answers – and French scientist Pascal Cotte has got both of them wrong. Cotte has told a BBC documentary about his 10-year study of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting using the Layer Amplification Method (LAM). When you look down through the layers of Leonardo’s painting, you see the fossils of his changing conception of the Mona Lisa. The first image he set down, Cotte says, was far less harmonious than the woman we see today…
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Van Gogh en 2.0
Marcel Duchamp l’a fait en premier : prendre un objet, le poser sur un socle ou à côté d’un cartel et l’appeler Œuvre d’art. Andy Wharol a fait les choses un peu différemment. Il a en effet produit la même chose avec des objets tels que des boites de conserve et des chaises électriques (charmant) en série, mais pour plus de sensationnel, Wharol utilise également les visages de stars hollywoodiennes. Pour plus de sensationnel ou pour dénoncer une industrie du spectacle ? Qui exactement à fait de Liz un objet de vente ? Wharol semble simplement montrer plastiquement un phénomène. Cette œuvre met également le doigt sur la prolifération des images et son…
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La verdad del poliedro
Matisse pasó la mayor parte de su vida intentando buscar la verdad. Para él la verdad estaba escondida tras la simplificación de las líneas y la combinación de colores. Por este motivo se dedicaba a estudiar sus propias obras y repetirlas con el objetivo de mejorar su técnica en cada nuevo cuadro que completaba. No son pocos los que han realizado series y copias de sus cuadros, pero es significativo que Matisse buscara no sólo comparar la luz o sus efectos sobre un determinado objeto, sino superarse individualmente con cada obra, alcanzar el cuadro verdadero, la perfección total.
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Musings… and Matisse
How does one gain immortality these days? No, this is actually a serious question! For the Ancient Egyptians, they took the important person’s corpse, removed the intestines and the other major decomposable parts (excepting the heart of course… every rookie embalmer knows that!), dried the body out with natron*, stuffed it with sawdust, wrapped it in linen, placed it in a couple of coffins, and then put it inside a large sarcophagus**. Easy. Then, they left the now-mummified body, erected a gigantic marking stone (obviously why the pyramids were built), and voila: today practically everybody and their grandmother knows the name of Tutankhamen. Not bad for a 5,000 year-old mummy!…
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The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships
It was Christopher Marlowe who coined the infamous line regarding Helen of Troy; ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’. I have to say, I do feel sorry for Helen! Put in a position where she was, effectively, responsible for a ten-year war, loss of lives, and the sacking of a city. I ask: was it even her choice to leave Menelaus? Sure, the story goes that she and Paris fell in love and escaped Sparta and her husband by fleeing to Troy. But, really, what if this wasn’t the true story? What if she was actually in love with Menelaus, and was just kidnapped by Paris? Admittedly, if Paris…
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