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Artist Influence – Leonardo da Vinci
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.
First Week Project – Self Portrait, The Inner Body
So for my first work week at Sunderland University, I had to draw a life size self portrait of myself. On the Friday previous, I went with the uni to see the Gunther Von Hagen’s Body Worlds Vital exhibit in the Life Center in Newcastle. The exhibit is composed of real human bodies which have been preserved through the process plastination. For my self portrait, I had to draw my anatomy; my own personal view of my anatomy. I used Hagens work as a starting point for the project, then I researched Leonardo Da Vinci, Antony Gormley, and some concept/in-game art from some games which I play. I used Hagen and Da Vinci’s work so I could understand the nature of the human body and where certain organs can be located. The main influence of Gormleys work was his metal sculptures which are formed from the human body. The brief of the project said to use our imagination to create the anatomy within the body, and to show our interests; so I decided to use games as an influence for my portrait; I mainly used an idea/concept from a game I enjoy and created my own design based from it.
As the week went on I drew A5 sized drawings depicting parts of the human anatomy in my own design, and by the end of the week created a life size self portrait of myself showing my interests and thoughts. Below are some images of the portrait which I drew.
Enjoy.
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