Monday, 17 December 2012

Transformation in Art (Renaissance and Contemporary)


Transformation
In Art


       



High Renaissance





                The Last Supper by
                Leonardo Da Vinci


 



                           Contemporary Art






                                                                        The Persistence of Memory by
                                                                                      Salvador Dalli


         From the Renaissance to the Contemporary there is like four centuries between each other. The world evolved together with art new styles, new technics, new way of looking at it, the importance of etc.…  Everything that exists in the world changes and makes different movements such as travelling where in the eighteen hundreds they traveled with horses in the nineteen century cars started to develop, today we have multiple number of travelling such as trains, buses, airplanes, ships and more. That is what happened in art with every artist and every mind. Taking his creation to the limit until people starts to like the new art. Where in the time of Leonardo did the masterpiece of The Last Supper it was that time of perfection both in perspective and figures with natural colours and movement. They were also fanatic about religious stories and persons. Most of all paintings, sculptures and reliefs are related to that theme.

        Years passed and new artists started to take place others where like Salvador Dalli had new ideas, one of them was fantasy. His work is surrealism. In every piece he did there is a touch of fantasy that nobody would imagine. The Persistence of Memory was the best of his work that shows pocket watches melted representing that time cannot be fixed and with a strange creature lying on the floor fading away like a dream. Even the colours in it some do not match the ones in real life, not only into dalli’s work but also in many paintings most of them are with strange, bright, strong colours. The themes are strange like trees coloured with different colours such as blue, orange, pink figures in cubes, figures as monsters, in many colours etc.…  

           As they say it is not modern art it is contemporary art because nobody knows what type of art it is going to be. 




Bibliography :

About.com Art History. [Online] http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/high_ren.htm [accessed in 17th December 2012]

Wikipedia-Salvador Dalli. [Online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD [accessed in 17th December 2012]

E.H. Gombrich - The Story of Art, Pocket Edition 2006, website: www.phaidon.com

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