Summer Project
Me, Myself, and I, and I, and I...
30.48cm x 365.76cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Summer (End of May - Early August), 2017
30.48cm x 365.76cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Summer (End of May - Early August), 2017
Inspirational Artist/Work
Born on April 15th in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most influential and revolutionary artists and mathematician of his and our time. With his art he was an expertise at making an image really come to life with facial expressions as well as body language. This very part about him is what I felt I wanted to include into my piece and try to make it "feel alive" with facial expressions and body language of every visible person as well. He also was a master of perspective in his time and made ground-breaking decisions when it came to where is what and which way is what facing in his pieces. His influential ideas and steps are what I planned to used in my painting when it came to making accurate and expressive faces and and placements.
Brainstorming
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"I will make them into a series and make it seem as if it is 6 different people in one area. This will hopefully give it more of an aesthetic style. the colors/emotions will be arranged from lightest to darkest and will hopefully blend well."
After this point was when I instantly knew that I would want to paint it as if it was The Last Supper but instead with my body and face. I figured this was a perfect idea because it had the vibrant colors that i was looking for, it would be relativity large piece and feels very alive when looking at it. .As soon as I figured this is what I'd do I stopped with the planning and I moved right into the process stage.
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Process/Experimentation
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Reflection
ACT Connections
- Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork. With Leonardo you can see a huge use of vibrant colors and each subject in his paintings (especially The Last Supper) has very expressive body language which gives the piece a sense of liveliness to it. With my piece I used those same aspects and made sure that the parts that I changed were just as vibrant and expressive and carried out the liveliness as best as possible.
- What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
- What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? I've discovered how much of an influential AND revolutionary artist Leonardo truly was. I have always known that he was one and that he was one of the most best artists of his time but I never really understood exactly how much he was until I did more research for the piece. He showed me the impact that one person, simple idea, or new concept could have on a culture and overall nation in general.
- What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? At first it was about finding someone that used lots of colors in the right way and made a painting the complete opposite of bland or dull, this idea then transitioned into someone who does this as well as also doing it on very large canvases. I had no intention to connect this to an artist/ culture in the beginning, it was towards the end that the central idea around the research became finding an artist who does all this while making it revolutionary and hard to forget. That easily came to be Leonardo da Vinci and his work.
- What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?