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Post #9- Reading GRQ Discussion- Rennaissance and Modern Art

 Discussion, Reading, and GRQs

Discussion
Why is the Mona Lisa Famous? She was an ordinary woman, where many who were painted were wealthy and had power or authority. Very revolutionary through the "rules being broken." Mona depicts da Vinci's mastery of the human anatomy and natural realism. Mona was believed to be a man, but she maybe also was a woman called Lisa Gherardini, a wife of Florentine silk Merchant Francesco del Gioconda. The painting stayed with da Vinci until his death then it was property of King Francois, hanging around the palaces and museums. Now its incased in glass because of vandalism and theft cases. Da Vinci also used subtle techniques of lighting and blending to create gradients of light and shadows to also create the look of real skin and the different tones of skin colors. 

Reading-
Rennaissance architecture to modern architecture has evolved in new ways. Ever since da Vinci, Raphael, Michaelangelo and many more were alive there have been advancements. The "rules" of art have been broken and followed in many new ways like with contrast, using gold or not using gold in paintings, using black as a shadow maker or using white as a lightening maker. The purpose of this text is to educate us with the idea that the artists that lived 600 years ago will always have a long-lasting engagement and celebrity status in the art world because of what they did to art and the meaning of art. Why do we only remember and know the names of those who are from 600+ years ago? We remember those because the "rules of art" haven't changed, they have only evolved to bigger and better things. 




GRQs
1.) portraiture
2.) window
3.) linear perspective 
4.) aerial perspective
5.) Masaccio
6.) Brunelleschi
7.) Jan Van Eyck
8.) Leonardo's
9.) The school of Athens
10.) black
11.) stonebreakers
12.) David
13.) modern
14.) avant-garde
15.) autonomous
16.) kitsch

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