Sabado, Nobyembre 29, 2014

Left Hand " Artistic Style"

Left hander is use the right side of the brain the most or is artistic? Is this true?  Did you know that the three renaissance great artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio, and Michelangelo Buonarroti are left hander? Yes, that’s true. Left hander like me is a well- informed in different arts but mostly, I focus in drawing. Drawing is my hobby since when I was 7 years old. I remember my previous drawing when I was a kid like a girl and a boy, a house, landscape like mountains and etc. I try and try to improve my drawings. When I was in 3rd Year High school I started to join in poster making contest. When I was in 4th Year High School, I elected as artist of Student- Teacher’s Organization. I thank God because I have a gifted hand/ talent.
What is my artistic style?
Previously I focus to draw “Anime” (are Japanese animated productions usually featuring hand-drawn or computer animation) but last week, I practice to draw “Portrait”. Here are some artworks that I created:

Lenore Quibael from MMA1-1
HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper

HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper
HB, 2B & 4B Pencil in A4 paper

Source:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime 

Sabado, Nobyembre 22, 2014

Leonardo da Vinci: "Mona Lisa" and Vincent Willem van Gogh: "Starry Night"




Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa or ( La Joconde in French; La Gioconda in Italian ) art by Leonardo da Vinci and one of the finest examples of Renaissance painting and it is probably also the best known example of sfumato (is one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance; use of fine shading), a painting technique partly responsible for her enigmatic smile. A painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape and which has been acclaimed as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. In dimensions, it is 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in)and it is an oil rendition of Da Vinci using poplar wood. It is told that Da Vinci started the painting in 1503 and took about four years to complete, although art history books suppose that Da Vinci spent a few more years to perfect its creation. There are around 6 million people from all over the world every year who visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France (one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument) to see Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait, Mona Lisa. Who’s Mona Lisa? The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542 ), the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy. Her name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior. Centuries after Lisa's death, Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci 
Who is Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci? (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) he was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. He has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized flying machines, a vehicle, concentrated, an adding machine, and the double hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.

Leonardo da Vinci was renowned as the inventive artistic genius long before he painted the Mona Lisa, and his fame drew wide attention to his art. His reputation as a genius was well- deserved. Leonardo lived his motto, “He is a poor pupil who does not surpass his masters” and is said to have surpassed not only his masters, but all his contemporaries in each of the many arts and disciplines to which he committed himself. He researched anatomy to perfect his art. His dissected animal and human cadavers to learn the muscle and skeletal structure and made copious drawings and notes. He studied perspective, the sky and atmosphere, and the way light falls in curved surfaces and, based on these studies, refined his painting methods. Although only a few paintings survive today, his work is still admired by experts. The Mona Lisa was one of his last paintings, all his skills is evident. Did you know that the original painting has a minor spot of damage near her left elbow. In 1956, for not known purpose, a man named Ugo Ungaza threw a stone at the painting and therefore creating the small damage. Mona Lisa artwork started to be so common because partially it created news when it was stolen from Louvre Museum in Paris by an employee in 1911 - in broad daylight. However it was recovered after about two years.


Musée du Louvre in Paris, France 

A minor spot of damage near her left elbow (1956)
 Vincent Willem van Gogh
 was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. He began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches, and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still life’s, portraits as well as paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
This is the famous artwork of Vincent, “The Starry Night”. It is an oil on canvas painting. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view (with the notable addition of an idealized village) from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. It is Van Gogh's best-known painting and one of the most recognized monuments in the history of Western culture. Just as most people can tell you that Vincent Van Gogh was a famous Impressionist artist who painted Starry Night, many people also have heard about how Van Gogh was "crazy" and suffered with mental health issues throughout his life. The story of Van Gogh cutting off his ear after a fight with his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin, is one of the most popular anecdotes in art history, and supposedly occurred in winter 1888, the year before the painting of Starry Night and not long before Van Gogh's death in 1890. Keeping with his reputation as a crazy artist, Van Gogh was committed to a mental health asylum in Arles after the ear incident with Gauguin. History has it that Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in the mental hospital, and that the landscape in the painting is the view Van Gogh had from his window.

(Source)

Book:
Readings from World Literatures. Great Books Publishing 2013

Sabado, Nobyembre 15, 2014

The Relationship of Arts and History

What is art? Art is one component important to a man’s life. It is found in all ages; it is also found in all countries of the world. Art is a man’s way of expressing his feelings, his views, his moods, or his ideas by the use of skills and imagination such as drawing, painting, sculpture, dancing and so on. His work is a product of his unique personality. An artist’s creative work is influenced by factors such as traditions, religious beliefs, his environment, his political views, economic conditions, and the place where it is produced. Art is part of a culture. Since every civilization has a culture, then every civilization has the arts. It is continued to undergo changes along with the evolution of time and of mankind. The making of the arts started since the beginning of mankind. Arts is everywhere and never stopped nor made pause. Every human being has learning to the arts although others do not have the chance to discover their ability or talent.



History is the study of the past, specifically how it relates to humans. It is the whole series of past events connected with someone or something. Art is one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by human beings. Paintings of animals like bulls were already found among the rough and rocky walls of caves. Other images were about activities of daily life of man. The pre- historic man was already seeking and making images to express his inner feelings and emotions. In modern times, art history has emerged as a discipline that specializes in teaching people how to evaluate and interpret works of art based on their own perspective. Art history has frequently been criticized for its subjectivity because the definition of what is beautiful varies from individual to individual. Learning to evaluate what you see by building on the art forms you already know can develop your aesthetic understanding.


All art is influenced by the historical period in which it is created Artists paint or carves historical subjects because they are sensitive to the events taking place in the world around them. Juan Luna’s Spoliarium for example, shows fallen gladiators at the arena in Rome. However, this has also an interpretative reference to the social injustice during the Spanish regime. The statutes of Jose Rizal and many of our Filipino heroes magnified their efforts to gain independence from the Spaniards. The Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City reminds us of the events during the Revolutionary period in the history of our country.


             (The Spoliarium (often misspelled Spolarium) is a painting by Filipino artist Juan Luna.)

Source:
(The Dynamic Teeners of the 21st Century; LFP.Lopez, RJ. Pangan, MD. Beldia 
First Edition 2005; Book Store, Inc.)
(Appreciate and learn: Mapeh IV; AMG. Felizardo)
(http://www.arthistory.net)