Why
Leonardo - a GREAT artist !?
Leonardo
da Vinci trained as a painter during the Renaissance and became a true
master of the craft. His amazing powers of
observation and skill as an illustrator enabled him to notice and recreate
the effects he saw in nature, and added a special liveliness to his portraits.
Curious as well as observant, he constantly
tried to explain what he saw, and described many experiments to test his
ideas. Because
he wrote down and sketched so many of his observations in his notebooks,
we know that he was among the very first to take a scientific approach
towards understanding how our world works and how we see it.
Leonardo recognized that one way to paint scenes realistically was to observe
with great care how animals, people, and landscapes really looked.
He was also careful to notice the differences
in how an object looked when it was close by and when it was farther away,
and when it was seen in bright light and in dim light.
He turned his attention to nature during long
walks. He wrote detailed notes on his observations
and made sketches of the things he saw in his notebooks throughout his
life.
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