1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I choseThe Drawings of Michelangelo& Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance because I am very fascinated by Michelangelo’s work. I think he was amazing, and had beautiful art. His art is real art to me, it’s real and well done. True talent. My parents recently went to Italy and saw his paintings and sculptures and said they were amazing! Also, Leonardo Da Vinci… SO INTERESTING. All those movies about him and his work are just so awesome and I’d love to learn even more about him so I chose his video.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned:
The Drawings of Michelangelo:Michelangelo was born is Florence in 1475. His specialty is drawing. He was absolutely amazing at detail and realness. It is very hard to recreate his work, it was so delicate and well done, it seems impossible now to recreate. He learned to paint and draw, but taught himself to sculpt. His most famous is creation of Adam. This is a beautiful painting on the Sistine chapel ceiling. I used his piece in the last project we had. It shows god creating man (Adam), as a reflection of himself. Michelangelo seems to focus on the core of the human body in all his works. You can use the body to show expressible feelings that are imagined. We see a lot of twisting torsos, some say it is a depiction of life and death. Michelangelo payed big attention to the detail in his work, the place, the positioning and how it would be viewed. His sculptures even more amazing then his drawings, two of the most famous being David and Pieta.
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance: As a young man, Leonardo had a passion for drawing. As he grows older, he observes faces, emotions, detail. Like Michelangelo, he also resided in Florence. “First become a master at perspective, then acquire complete knowledge of the proportion of man and the other animals. Become a good architect too. Take the head from one, eyes from another and ears from another.” Leonardo. He conveys density and transparency. He began his artwork as juts a child. He was a painter, architect and engineer. He died at the age of 67, and is considered the renaissance man. His work is amazing just as Michelangelo’s was. One famous painting of his includes the Mona Lisa. He says our body is below heaven, and heaven is below our spirit.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
Page 372 in the text book we see Michelangelo’s David sculpture. We see David here in buffalo in Delaware park on the 33, Scajaquada. This of course is a recreation, but the real sculpture is in Florence, Italy. David was a young shepherd who killed the giant Goliath with a single stone. David shows Michelangelo’s debt to classical sculptures. He translated his knowledge into a figure made of muscle, flesh and bone, created in marble. David is young and vibrant. On the same page we see Madonna and child with St. Anne, by Leonardo. This was one of his most ambitious works of art. His work was to show theological meaning. His specialty was layer upon layers of translucent glazes as they create a hazy atmosphere and velvet shadows.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I think the films are a little boring and old, but they are very informational. We see the religious depth behind a lot of the artwork. We notice the extreme detail behind these drawings and sculptures. The realness, and preciseness is remarkable. Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci will forever be famous artists and their work is timeless. We will never be able to recreate their work. I like Michelangelo’s video and artwork actually better. I love creation of Adam, my favorite! We learn that art isn’t just drawing something and whipping it up really quick. As seen in Michelangelo’s work and Da Vinci’s, it is almost like a science, its mathematical. It takes skill and real effort. Creating the right lines, shading, proportions, etc.
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