"Study the science of art. Study the art of science.
Develop your senses.
Especially learn how to see.
Realise that everything connects to everything else."
- Leonardo da Vinci -
These days art is categorized in 7 forms. Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Cinema, Music and Theater. Going back in history art was also an essential part of documenting who and what existed before our time. The Renaissance was a period in European history covering the 15th and 16th centuries described as a time of effort to revive and surpass theories and achievements of classical antiquity. As well as social change. The development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting began a gradual widespread educational reform. Art and the artists were a driving force of vital change. Where this new thinking came to manifest in not only art but also architecture, politics, science and literature. During this time it is best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Claudio Monteverdi. Known to have earned their reputations as artists and musicians, they were also inventors, physicians and engineers. Men and women of the Renaissance era as a polymath were considered imaginative and versatile thinkers who crossed boundaries between humanistic, scientific and artistic boundaries. The “cluster” of polymaths explored various ways that the human learning integrated. Considering how music was used as a tool for understanding the natural world, how art and architecture were connect to the science of anatomy, mathematics was used to understand beauty and proportion, medicine was the connection in nature and the human body. Creativity originated from the curiosity to understand our world and ourselves. Marking a time of new awareness, classical learning and a more realistic overview of the human body. Art is also an expression of creativity that can be used for personal reflection as well as social influence. Helping us understand what we are as human beings and how we relate to each other. Here we can begin to understand that art is not just a class you decide to take during school days or a certain kind of person is an artist but it is also a way of thinking. An attitude and lifestyle that contributes to many factors in our society. Influencing the fundamental sense of self, opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Almost like a central location of society’s collective memory. Much of our attitudes reflect depending on the condition of our economy, government and power. More often than not, society will collectively respond to the care of their leader through art which can bring a shift or change in large numbers. Whereas over time in history we can depict the happenings, mood and relations of living back then and even now.
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