Is Beauty Subjective, And Not Universal?

Both of the paintings by Michelangelo are excellent examples of Renaissance era art. These two paintings are the Last Judgment and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The ceiling was worked on from 1508 to 1512 and shows many themes common throughout Renaissance art. One of the most prominent is the stunning realism in both pieces. Despite there being hundreds of figures is both pieces each is extremely realistic. There’s a huge stress on the human figure in this painting and they look as though they could be real people. There’s also a fair amount of perspective, although this isn’t one of the most important parts of the paintings.

The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1503-6, is oil on panel. It is a three quarter portrait of a young, Florentine woman. She is sitting in a chair with her torso twisting around to face the viewer. Her hands are resting on the arm of the chair. Behind the woman in the background is a landscape very characteristic of many Leonardo paintings. The Mona Lisa was painted toward the end of Leonardo’s career. In contrast, the David created by Michelangelo around 1501-4, is a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David. The seventeen foot tall statue depicts a young man standing in contrapposto. Most of his weight is supported with is right leg, while his left leg is relaxed. He holds

While both pieces of Art have men as their main focus the techniques used to bring the pieces to life are greatly different

In the artwork of Raphael and Parmigianino, there are some similarities and some difference between the paints The Small Cowper Madonna and Madonna of the Long Neck. The similarities between both art pieces are that the artists use the same type of material which consists of oil on wood to create their masterpieces. They both display Mary and the child Jesus and they both were made during the sixteenth century.

The two paintings I decided to compare are “The Last Judgement” and the “Conversion of Saul”. They were both painted by Michelangelo an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. These two paintings are both religious images and show Michelangelo’s image of God and his fellow followers. The “Last Judgement” was created first in 1536–1541 and the “Conversion of Saul” was painted a few years later in 1542–1545. He was considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime and is also included in the list of one of the greatest artists of all time.

2. The second similarity, I found is that both paintings use colors that may best describe the context of the artists as the paintings were created.

The pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting are the three statues of David, by Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), and Bernini (Gian Lorenzo Bernini). The statues are modeled after the biblical David, who was destined to become the second king of Israel. Also most famously known as the slayer of the Philistine giant Goliath with a stone and a sling. The sculptures are all based on the same biblical hero, but differ from one another. Each David is unique in its own certain way.

Every painting is a unique experience for each individual person, therefore two of the artists that offered some of the most unique experiences where Leonardo da vinci and Michelangelo. While both of these painters are today well regarded and remembered, during their time they both had achieved such status in vastly different ways. Therefore even though these two artists lived during the same time these two are nothing alike. With their unique take on the world and events around them they were able to shape how the average person thought about the world around them.

Michelangelo and Da Vinci were very different artists who were trying to achieve different objectives with their art. Both men we great painters, their talents went into very different art forms, principles and approaches. Michelangelo was primarily a sculptor who focused on the ideal form and a classical style, while Da Vinci took a more scientific approach to art,

The works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo influenced the art of the 16th century in Italy and Europe in many ways. Three of Michelangelo’s works such as: The Last Judgment, Pieta, and David were great works during his time. Leonardo da Vinci also contributed great works to the 15st century such as: The Last Supper, St. James in the Wilderness, and The Mona Lisa. Although there were some similarities in Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo’s works, their differences and uniqueness is what made their works great masterpieces of the 15th and 16th century.

Art comes in many shapes and forms; two vastly different works of art may have many similarities while two similar works of art may be completely different. Two works that are very similar at first glance are The Birth of Venus by Botticelli in 1484-1486 and The Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian in 1522-1523. The two artists use space in different ways, Botticelli creates a small space in which the background has little to no depth in contrast Titian creates a large deep space where the background stretches far into the distance. When it comes to composition, Titian creates a deep, left to right flowing artwork while Botticelli creates a flat center focused work of art. Color and texture can add to or take away from realism and effect

They have different styles of backgrounds, different emphasis, and different emotion expressions. There are just too many differences to mention. However, compare to the numerous differences between these two paintings, the reasons for forming these differences can be traced. Three main points that contribute to these differences are their genres, their backgrounds and their artists’ personal characteristics. These three major reasons will be demonstrated in the following analysis by detailed differences I

This is a major difference we have to consider because he belonged to the Baroque style whereas Michelangelo belonged to the Renaissance. Michelangelo David has many major differences to the prior designs by both Donatello and Verrocchio, they were the firsts to create a statue about the story of David and Goliath. In both Donatello and Verrocchio’s David, David is considerably younger, compared to Michelangelo’s. A major difference between Donatello and Verrocchio’s David vs. Michelangelo and Bernini’s is that on the latter there is no head of Goliath in their feet. Due to the time which latter artists belonged to, that wasn’t a common.

In these two exquisite works of art or shall we call them the grand master pieces of their era’s. Both Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat and Michelangelo’s Pieta flawlessly reflects the untimely deaths of two significant figures that we know of today. The two figures comprised of Jesus Christ in Michelangelo’s Pieta and Jean-Paul Marat in Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat. In the two pieces we see that the pair of artists portray the figures in a divine and yet virtuous way. One work of art almost mimicking the other, yet there is still some differences between the characteristics of each piece still making it its own individual self. In the following paragraphs we will be diving deeper into the similarities and differences

Is beauty purely subjective or objective? Is it only white or black with no shades of gray? Both philosophers I am going to discuss would say yes, albeit on opposite ends of the spectrum. Ducasse defines beauty as “the capacity of an object aesthetically contemplated to yield feelings that are pleasant” (Ducasse, 1966). In summary, he means this to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Frankly, this is a hard stance to counter because all it says is that if one thinks something is beautiful, then it is beautiful to them. Something one may find beautiful may not be beautiful to someone else. According to Ducasse, this is because we all have different experiences and backgrounds that constitute who we are. The way an object is viewed can be predisposed by one’s constitution. (Ducasse, 1966). Due to the difference in constitution, Ducasse believes that beauty cannot be objective, nor can arguments concerning the beauty of an object be valid if there are no set standards of beauty (Ducasse, 1966).