Phuong VanRaphael’s The School of Athens and Durand’s Kindred Spirits.
Artists Balla and Calder’s their
work, How Shen Zhou uses the element of design in his artwork poet on a
Mountain Top, Isaac Newton’s contribution colors
1. The Compare and contrast the use of perspective in Raphael’s The School of Athens and Durand’s Kindred Spirits
1. The Compare and contrast the use of perspective in Raphael’s The School of Athens and Durand’s Kindred Spirits
Raphael’s The School of
Athens and Durand’s Kindred Spirits are one of the famous paintings in the
world. They were pained by the well-known artists with their sharp lines. Both
of them have the great values go through the time; beside, The School of Athens
and Kindred Spirits have several differences in characters of art. First,
Raphael’s painting is an art of linear perspective; it was one of the big pictures
in Renaissance. The School of Athens revealed the drawing lines on the basic
one-point perspective system and depict the way objects in space appear to eye
in 16th century. In aerial perspective, the Durand’s painting shows
an illusion of depth to create the detail and natural colors in “visual
experience” of the real world. The Durand’ is non-sectarian in that is
“supports the journey of others” where ever they are along the way. The second
difference is The School of Athens expressed a symbol of the synthesis of pagan
and Christian philosophies; The Kindred Spirits captured the “sublime grandeur”
of the American landscape. In Raphael’s painting, it represents the truth
acquired through reason and provided an appropriate space for his depiction of
“the Greek philosophers and other important thinkers.” It regard for its human
relationship to its appreciation of cultural diversity and the manner to which
it interact with all of its members. The School of Athens placed on education
in liberal arts by new pattern. It is probably “inspired” by late Roma architectural
and has been admired during the course of nearly five hundred years. In Kindred
Spirits, Durand set the stone for American landscape painting which celebrated
man’s relationship to natural and the wilderness. He helped to define an
American sensibility about the land, “setting it apart from European
traditions,” and he perfected innovative compositional elements. Durand’s
painting includes style’s main proponent, and William Cullen Bryant; he
esteemed poet; at the edge of precipice in Catskills Mountain, their walking
sticks in hand. Durand’s influence hastened the decline of history painting in
the 19th century in capturing the sublime of scenery, but the
Raphael’s painting concentrated about high education in ancient time.
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Giacommo balla was one of
the founders of Futurism. He was among the many artists who outlined their
primary objective to depict movement, which they saw as symbolic of their
commitment to the dynamic forward thrust of the twentieth century. Balla’s
painting celebrated the machine concerned with capturing figures and objects in
motion. He translated the racing car was “heralded as the triumph” of age which
is into works that captured the dynamic energy of the speed of modern century.
In his Girl Running on The Balcony, Balla attempted to realize movement by
showing the girl’s running legs in “repeated sequence”. In Abstract Speed-The
Car Has Passed, he depicted the “running air and dynamic feeling of vehicle
passing; in Dog on a Leash; he got to grips with the problem of recreating
speed, and other paintings such as Flight Of The Swallow, Plastic Construction
Of Noise And Speed…he expressed “human experience” of motion, time and space by
the development of the automobile, movies… in his works.
Alexander
Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern
art in the 20th century. He began by developing a new method of
sculpting by bending and twisting wire. He relied on air movement to “perform
his subtle dances,” a leading investor of kinetic sculpture, he essentially
“drew” three-dimensional figures in space. He invented of the mobile which is abstract
element move and balance in changing harmony of art into motion. For example,
In Totem, n.d, he made the fourth dimensions of time to move through
space; in Big Red, he relied on air
speed to “subtle movement;” in other works, he displayed range from large-scale
outdoor sculpture to more intimately sized mobile constructions.
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3. How Shen Zhou uses the element of design in his artwork Poet
on a Mountain Top. Which elements were excluded and why?
Shen Zhou’s Poet on a
Mountain Top is a well-known China Painting in 15th century. The
basic elements of this painting were belong to literati art which have another
way of creating atmospheric perspective. It described “poetic symbols of
landforms” in the world of liberation. The painting includes a poem that
relates to, and almost tells the story of the painting. The poet on a Mountain
is a traditional Chinese landscape painting; it is a distinct class which
flourished between the tenth and fifteenth century. The picture in this
tradition are usual very recognizable; there is a background of mountainous terrain;
a stream around from the mountains or the river beside the mountains…In
addition, a scholar, poet, retired officer or Taoist appeared in the paintings.
In She Zhou’s Poet on a Mountain Top, the stone steps of mountain became a
casual please of the educated elite from that period. The high stone shows
strong and lively drawing; Shen expressed his quiet mind and entering the
immense clouds. In the Poet on a Mountain Top, he gives us recognize the
Chinese’s dream that is enjoyment in harmony of simple landscape. It excluded
from cluttered details in realistic representations in order to contact with
peace of mind by its simpleness.
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4. Isaac Newton’s contributions to our understanding of color
Isaac Newton was almost
noted for theories on the Law of Motion and the idea that-all bodies exert
gravitation. He also built the first practice reflecting telescope and
developed an idea of colour based on observation to pass through a prism into a
dark chamber onto a white light, and many colours that form the visible
spectrum. The colors were the same which made up a rainbow violet, indigo,
blue, green, yellow, orange and red. His theory is a quintessential symbol of
the human intellect and its ability to “decode secrets” of natural. The
discovery white light is actually a mixture of immutable spectral color and the
formulation of calculus. His use of the camera obscure was associated with the
work on optics. Newton also made a pin-hole camera with a hole on one of the sides
of a cardboard box, and a tracing paper on the opposite side, one could see an
upside down image of the object in front of the hole. This proved that light
color travels in a straight line. In discovery, the color is the effect on “our
eyes of light waves of differing wavelengths or frequencies;” that is also
basic of inspiration for artists in multicolor
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