Week 2 : Era

Since the 1^st day of school started I knew different kind of things in the history of arts & design. I’ve seen different kind of art forms. I’ve learn how to create my own artwork. Even if I don’t know how to draw I still try to create a good artwork. Love what you are creating so that the outcome will be a good kind of art. If I create an abstract the viewers cannot know the meaning of it because I can only know the meaning of it. Even in are early times there are many kinds of art that is being created. That’s why it is being tackled in our subject for us to know many art forms. The Mona Lisa is the famous painting in the world that is created by Leonardo da Vinci. Until now this painting of Leonardo da Vinci is being tackled by different artists in the world.

Based on My observation all the sculpture of a human is all naked like the thinker. Architecture is one of the artworks in Classical art. There are many techniques in making an art like pointillism – using dots to make an art, Abstract expressionism – contemporary art. Then in the art of the ancients there is a golden section “mathematical ratio is 1:1:68”. Then two essential ways art as likeness & art as alteration. Art as likeness – realism this is a real art that is being make by the artist, art as likeness – abstract. Aristotle’s saying all visual art are all mimesis. Byzantine or Christian art this is the art made for churches & many more. The Meaning of Kouros is Man that’s why sculptures are all naked man & woman. One of the greatest artists in all time is Leonardo da Vinci & his best art is The Mona Lisa a painting of a real Woman who is sitting in pile of rock.

The best part in History of arts & design, you can able to think & create different art all by your self.  We may able to know the story of the arts back then. Learn how to draw even if you don’t know how to draw. Be an artist in your kind of style. Love what you do so it could be a great kind of art. Be imaginative enough to create art or to think art. Art itself is not being created because we are the one who will create it. For me the most influential era is the classical art.

Week : 1 The Mona Lisa

Many people are curious about the painting of Leonardo da Vinci, “Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (La Jaconde)”. Base on What I’ve read Mona Lisa is a 16^th Century portrait painted in oil on a paper panel by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa during the Renaissance of Italy. This particular painting “The Mona Lisa” is the most famous painting in the world. I think I heard Mona Lisa when I was only 10 years old and I Didn’t know that it is a painting of a woman smiling to her viewers. Based on What I’ve read on the net, Mona Lisa Was Painted by a celebrated genius who didn’t create a lot of paintings during his life time. Leonardo Started painting The Mona Lisa in 1502 according to Vasari. After he had lingered his four years, he had continued to work on it for three years after he moved to France to finished shortly before he died in 1519. Leonardo took the painting from Italy to France in 1516 when king Francois invited the painter to work at dos cuce near the king’s castle.

King Francois bought the painting for 4,000 ecus and kept it at fantainebleua. It remains until moved by King Louis XIV. The Mona Lisa is an art of the Renaissance period. The painting was not well-known until the mid-19^th century. When the Artists of the emerging symbolist began to appreciate it then is was known by many people. It becomes a mystery that why Leonardo da Vinci created this painting. With their ideas of feminine mystique critic Walter Pater, in his essay on 1867 on Leonardo da Vinci, express his viewed by describing the figure of the painting. Then Walter Pater said on his essay that it is a mythic embodiment of eternal feminity. Who is older than the rock among which she sits and who has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave. Walter Pater is very Intrigue of Leonardo’s painting.

Based on what I've read the painting of Mona Lisa is a real women that Leonardo da Vinci painted. Leonardo's assistant salai owned the portrait named in his personal papers. Leonardo use a pyramid design to place the woman simply and calmly in the space of painting. The portrait is the first painting to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape. Then the enigmatic woman portrayed seated in what it appears to be an open loggia in dark places. We can see that The Mona Lisa painting has no visible facial hair at all. Then this painting has been restored for several times.