Artist Influence – Leonardo da Vinci

Posted on 09/01/2015 Updated on 08/01/2015

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest men in art, and one of the greatest inventors of his time. Even after hundreds of years, da Vinci’s fame has lived on throughout the years and his work is still celebrated amongst the artist world. Leonardo paved the way for inventors alike, and set the path of the inventions we make today. Numerous amounts of da Vinci’s paintings and notes are held around the world to educate the masses on how this man paved the way forward in the advances of technology and also the art world.

From the knowledge I have to information I’ve read, da Vinci was always interested in making the world a better place with his inventions, to even making machines that can allow men to fly. Personally, I’ve always known that da Vinci was a great man and a great painter, but I never truly understood how his work influenced our lives today and that the inventions he created were the blueprints to our life today.

The reason the project I’m working on currently relates to da Vinci’s work (mainly da Vinci’s inventions), is I want to show a world of my own creation through which can only be shown by prototypes and models. I want to create a world which is non-fiction in my own mind, but can become reality through new inventions.

Via the research I’ve done, I cannot locate what Leonardo da Vinci’s influence on him was. I assume it was the intention of making life easier for not only him but for others, but also to understand how the world worked.

The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Leonardo da Vinci.

Information and pictures found via the content below:

Leonardo da Vinci

In-text: (Leonardo, 1989)

Bibliography: Leonardo, (1989). Leonardo da Vinci. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the South Bank Centre.