Analyzing Leonardo Da Vinci's Painting

“While some may deem Leonardo da Vinci paintings tame in their total effect on our society’s modern sensibilities, his development of techniques that immersed the viewer in the world of the painting, and the impact of those techniques cannot be understated.”1

Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for a monastery and at this time in his career he was ready to test new ideas. He had already mastered the 15th-century traditional art form of dividing and defining architectural forms into sections. He also used the common mathematical skills of perspective that was the practice in his day. So when Leonardo was commissioned to do the altarpiece he asked himself what he could do differently to change composition, realistic depictions of nature and technical methods. This led him to try new techniques and he took his time when developing these new ideas. Through trial and error and his willingness to experiment and test new things, he was motivated and inspired. His motivation was simply

In the 1968 art exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity L. D. Harmon and K. C. Knowlton take a simple picture of two birds flying in the sky and computer generated the photography by converting electrical signals into numerical representations on magnetic tape, this then provides a digital version of the photo to be used in computer processing. The photo is divided into fragments where its generated by numbers. The photo is given a density that’s shown by different shades of dots that creates the computer-generated photograph. In close range, you can see each separate shaded dot which makes up the photo. At 20-30 feet, away from the overall computer-generated photograph you are able to conduct the figure that once was an original photograph.

"The Last Supper," by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fresco painting, meaning that it is directly painted on a wall. The "Last Supper" is fascinating to me in several ways. Maybe because I am Catholic and being familiar with it by hanging in our dining area at home. Most of my friends and acquaintances have a picture of it in their home as well.

The work of Leonardo da Vinici is full of perspective, light, colors, and shadows. He was very young when he started paining and his paintings were the first in his time period to really capture the new technique of perspective. By the time Leonardo da Vinici was in his early twenties he was already famous in the art world! Leonardo da Vinci’s art was very significant because he used realistic elements that represent the world. The people around him were intrigued by his painting because they were new and eye opening. The time before Leonardo da Vinici was a very religious time and the paintings were of interesting religious beliefs. It is said that, “Leonardo went beyond his teaching by making a scientific study of light and shadow in nature.

Leonardo da Vinci liked to use different forms of religious symbolism in his works. The most not able being “The Last Supper”. In it he uses four sets of three apostles to represent the four gospels and the trinity. He also placed Christ in front of a large window where the sky and clouds can be seen. This has importance because generally clouds represent the unseen God. He also tries to capture the confusion created when Jesus tells his apostles that he is going to be betrayed. He also added 3 windows and two sets of four door ways to represent the gospels and the

While looking through the different topics I found myself curious on the work of Leonardo da Vinci with perspective, light, color, shading in paintings. While investigating this discovery, I learned so much. Leonardo da Vinci was interested in the natural world, so much that it led him into the field of optics and astronomy. At first while increasing his understanding he took the theories of the day as fact, but as he increased his knowledge he started to question what they had originally thought, not only did he question them, but also his own beliefs on the matter. As his understanding of how optics worked and the reflections that he observed from the sun on other planets and stars his paintings themselves began to adapt bringing more life

Leonardo Da Vinci’s work on shadows and art was motivated by the lack of explanation for the early of drawings on the walls. Pliny, a scientist before Da Vinci, theorized that the drawings were based off of the light that hit the bodies and the shadows that was cast because of the light and bodies. Leonardo Da Vinci, who was obsessed with shadows, theorized that the light that hits the human body or lack thereof was part of the whole picture. Some of Da Vinci’s first paintings used shadows and different tone of color, representing the way the sun hit the human body at different times of the day, to make beautiful paintings. Da Vinci asked questions like; how can we replicate the light that bounces off of our skin in a painting. Also what does the shadows look like on paintings.

During Leonardo da Vinci’s time, art was consisted mostly of religious paintings that 2 dimensional appearance. I found it to be interesting that people did not understand how to paint with shadows to portray a 3 dimensional image. You would think that any artist of any time would know how to do this. IF you look at the art before his time much of it lacks physical depth.

Paintings, like poetry and other forms of literature, are created to be explored and analyzed. Each tells and individual story and has a particular meaning that the artist wants one to take away from from their work. However, every person draws their own conclusions about what the artwork means to them, and this can stem from personal experiences, culture, religion and even the time period the person is in relative to when the painting was created. This is increasingly true when examining works of art from different eras. Each hold separate standards and values in which the artists drew from which largely affects the meaning behind a painting. For example, A Close Call by W. R. Leigh was painted in the post-impressionist era, and John Constable’s

The painting was to show the last meeting of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and his Apostles eating the bread that he claimed to be his body, and the wine that they were drinking that he claimed as his blood. The amazing master piece that Da Vinci created took roughly three long years to complete. This is amazing considering that Da Vinci, despite his amazing talents, often seemed to have a bad habit of “ Biting off more than he could chew” and leaving most of his projects unfinished. Despite this however Da Vinci created quite the masterpiece. The painting showed the emotions and tensions felt using body language and facial expressions to show how all of the Apostles felt as Jesus informed them that one of them was going to betray him. Despite being a beautiful rendition of the moment, Da Vinci had been sure to insert a secret meeting in there as he always seemed to be doing. For instance, this wasn't the only version of this meeting of Jesus and his followers. It had been recreated any different times by many different artists. One of the things that sets DaVincis version apart from the rest is the lack of halos. For example, in every single interpretation of this painting, Jesus and his 12 Apostles had all been seen with halos around their heads, implying they were angels with Jesus being the brightest as he was the son of God. Leonardo

Describe: In this painting, there is a woman looking over her shoulder. From this angle, one can see her large pearl earring and the blue and yellow cloths wrapped around her head. Her eyes look directly at the viewer.

I read an article that dealt with taking Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings and observed them using X-Ray Fluorescent Spectrometry (XRS), analyzing and studying the paintings that seem to have so much perspective, depth, and color.

I chose to research Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings and why he painted the way that he did. I chose this because I wanted to learn more about how and why Leonardo painted what he did. He was so famous for his works and he changed the face of art and how people looked at art. He was the first artist to use value constantly across his colors and paintings. He changed the way that people also looked at light and color. They are now related in a way that approximates and also describes their scientific and natural behavior. In one of his paintings he introduces a broader range of luminance that is seen. He uses it to make dimensions that he shows with his use of light and dark. It is called Chiaroscuro "a style of shading that dominates the tone

Leonardo da Vinci Born in 1452 is one of the most fascinating personalities in the history of Western art. Prepared in Florence as a painter and artist in the workshop of Andrea Del Verrocchio (1435–1488), Leonardo is additionally celebrated for his investigative commitments. His interest and voracious strive after information never left him. He was always observing, experimenting, and inventing, and drawing was, for him, a way for recording his investigation of nature. Albeit finished works by Leonardo are few, he cleared out a vast assortment of drawings (just about 2,500) that record his thoughts, most still accumulated into journals. He was mainly active in Florence (1472–ca. 1482, 1500–1508) and Milan (ca. 1482–99, 1508–13), however