Igor Babailov, a Russian born American artist once said, “Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.”
Without question Leonardo Da Vinci captured souls. His 15th Century contributions remain supreme whether they be in art, science, mathematics, engineering, writing or music. Such was Leonardo’s ability he enjoyed recognition and support as he created artworks such as the Mona Lisa and the less famous, Ginevra de benci.
By comparison Zoe Young is contemporary Australian artist, a graduate in sculpture at the National …show more content…
Da Vinci and Young have painted their subject using similar but different artforms, styles, subject matters, and techniques. Da Vinci painted an oil portrait painting of Ginevra de Benci in Florence, Italy 1474 to possibly commemorate her young marriage to her husband at the age of 16. Young’s semi-abstract entry in the Archibald prize is an Acrylic and rosewater on ply portrait of Torah Bright, a champion Australian Snowboarder. Although these paintings are two very different styles (da Vinci – Traditional, Realistic; Young – Stylised, semi – abstract), they display a similar subject matter of a women looking very relaxed, yet posed. In da Vinci’s work, Ginevra de benci is looking away from the artist, keeps a sombre facial expression, hair perfectly curled, is dressed is quite modest traditional clothing, and is in the centre of attention, in front of a lake and tree background. In comparison, Youngs impressionistic portrait exhibits …show more content…
Young has strategically placed Bright in the centre of the painting to draw attention to the face, in comparison to Da Vinci who has painted de benci in front of a tree-ey background. Both da Vinci and Young have used the elements and principles of designs. Elements of design like Line, Shape, Texture is all evident in Young’s semi-abstract piece, in comparison to da Vinci who uses value (tone), direction and size to create a more structured piece. Young uses intense, contrasting and harmonic colours which all seem to complement each other and be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, whereas da Vinci has gone for a monochromatic colour scheme, quite dark, analogous colour such as greens and browns in his artwork to direct the eye. Linking
Without question Leonardo Da Vinci captured souls. His 15th Century contributions remain supreme whether they be in art, science, mathematics, engineering, writing or music. Such was Leonardo’s ability he enjoyed recognition and support as he created artworks such as the Mona Lisa and the less famous, Ginevra de benci.
By comparison Zoe Young is contemporary Australian artist, a graduate in sculpture at the National …show more content…
Da Vinci and Young have painted their subject using similar but different artforms, styles, subject matters, and techniques. Da Vinci painted an oil portrait painting of Ginevra de Benci in Florence, Italy 1474 to possibly commemorate her young marriage to her husband at the age of 16. Young’s semi-abstract entry in the Archibald prize is an Acrylic and rosewater on ply portrait of Torah Bright, a champion Australian Snowboarder. Although these paintings are two very different styles (da Vinci – Traditional, Realistic; Young – Stylised, semi – abstract), they display a similar subject matter of a women looking very relaxed, yet posed. In da Vinci’s work, Ginevra de benci is looking away from the artist, keeps a sombre facial expression, hair perfectly curled, is dressed is quite modest traditional clothing, and is in the centre of attention, in front of a lake and tree background. In comparison, Youngs impressionistic portrait exhibits …show more content…
Young has strategically placed Bright in the centre of the painting to draw attention to the face, in comparison to Da Vinci who has painted de benci in front of a tree-ey background. Both da Vinci and Young have used the elements and principles of designs. Elements of design like Line, Shape, Texture is all evident in Young’s semi-abstract piece, in comparison to da Vinci who uses value (tone), direction and size to create a more structured piece. Young uses intense, contrasting and harmonic colours which all seem to complement each other and be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, whereas da Vinci has gone for a monochromatic colour scheme, quite dark, analogous colour such as greens and browns in his artwork to direct the eye. Linking