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Renaissance in Art
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| Former-Teacher | Date: Tuesday, 06.03.2012, 15:07 | Message # 1 |
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| What are the most significant achievements of Renaissance art?
How did Renaissance affect art development in Europe?
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| Luck | Date: Tuesday, 06.03.2012, 22:11 | Message # 2 |
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| The ancient art sang an anthem to man as a clever and beautiful creature. The medieval art described man who is dissatisfied and seeks for justice. But only the Renaissance created man who is intellectually free and who is the only one to control his fate. That was an epoch of a great rise of art that got free from the church. It was aimed at understanding the world as it is. Art became the main source of new ideas. There was an artistic technique. The development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards realism in art. To that end, painters also developed other techniques, studying light, shadow and even human anatomy. Underlying these changes in the artistic method was a renewed desire to depict the beauty of nature and to unravel the axioms of aesthetics.
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| Teacher | Date: Wednesday, 07.03.2012, 11:27 | Message # 3 |
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| Historically the Renaissance is the age of glory and of shame. But in fact it is the period of art being full of intellectual curiosity and energy grasping at the whole of life as material which it hopes to mold to any shape. Renaissance is a stream of consciousness, a fountain of thinkers and artists. The key point of the Renaissance are portraits. People are shown maximally realistic, but as large as life. Artists showed the whole beauty of the human being body. The Renaissance is in fact a period of the creative genius. The term “Renaissance” means “re-birth”. It was an age of the revival for the whole Europe. The artists of this epoch were real men of genius. The Art was their life. Leonardo da Vinci said once “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art”. The Art of Renaissance is a mixture of spiritual and professional genius. And its heritage is magnificent.
In Vino Veritas...
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| alex_makh | Date: Wednesday, 07.03.2012, 12:55 | Message # 4 |
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| The epoch of Renaissance had begun in the 14th and ended in the 17th. It was the very time, which has given us the most beautiful masterpieces and the most exiting discoveries practically in any sphere of the human life. Unlike the medieval civilization, when the development and innovations were practically the same in different corners of the earth, the Renaissance sparkles with such a great variety of thinkers and artists, practically in any sphere of human activity. When we speak about the Renaissance, we usually speak about the unending gallery of portraits of inspired personalities, glowing with inner light; we speak about the great people, their internal and external beauty and their great deeds. But we shouldn’t idealize the epoch. It was on the other hand cruel and savage, with no mercy for the poor and the week. It was an epoch of dictatorship and manifestation of power, the epoch of achieving aims by any means, notwithstanding how cruel and strict they were.
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| alex_makh | Date: Wednesday, 07.03.2012, 12:55 | Message # 5 |
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| The ancient art sings its praises to the Man, the representative of the great, mighty and beautiful kind. On the other hand, the unsatisfied Man, a being striving for the divine rightfulness is more a matter medieval art. The renaissance in its turn shaped the image of the Man as a creator, the brave and intelligent being.
It was the epoch of the great uprising of the creativity, free of church scholasticism, aspiring to learn and to understand the world as it is. It was the epoch of the gross discoveries, which gave rise to the titans of thought, will and wisdom.
The art is the main guide of ideals and values and the human body is the main subject matter of art. “The thighs of the Titian’s Venus” – according to Heine, - “were not as dangerous for the Pope, as the Luther’s Ninety-five theses.”
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| 8davids8 | Date: Thursday, 22.03.2012, 10:09 | Message # 6 |
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| The ancient art focuses on a sensible, glorious man. The medieval art focuses on a man striving for justice. But the renaissance art uncovered an intellectual man who can control his own fate.
It was really a revolutionary epoch that helped people to free their mind and gave a lot of great artists to the world. It gave birth to the giants of thought and art. It was an epoch of inventions.
Art itself was the source of human ideals, and artists concentrated on the human body. These features of Renaissance also characterized the epoch. It was time of free will and free thinking. Thus, the Renaissance drew a lot from the classical Hellenistic art and at the same time it brought about new revolutionary methods of art, which reflected the direction of thought of the society
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| vanilla | Date: Friday, 25.05.2012, 00:54 | Message # 7 |
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| The Renaissance proved to be a time of great transformation of the artist as they came to occupy a different place in society, for art was becoming more than just a craft. Renaissance society was dominated by guilds, which represented the important trades in the city. All were connected to a patron saint and each looked out for their fellow members, ensuring that all had a job and a decent income. So we know such famous representatives of this epoch, as Giorgio Vasari and Leonardo da Vinci.
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