Great paintings, sculptures, architectures apart from offering highest aesthetic pleasure for our visual perception are also known for ...
Great paintings, sculptures, architectures apart from offering highest aesthetic pleasure for our visual perception are also known for their insights and visionary statement. In the glorious history of aesthetic development there had been few astounding works of art that paved the way to scientific progress or incorporated the scientific principle signifying a broader confluence of art and science. Here we will introduce 5 such great artworks with breakthrough scientific vision
Paintings on Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings by great Renaissance artist
Michelangelo are revered the world over for their astounding visual
appeal and meticulous perfection in depicting biblical stories. But
close scientific observation by a few curious minds revealed some
unknown truths hidden in some of these paintings. The central panel
painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling which is known as Creation of
Adam by God, revealed a new observation by close inspection of some
scientists. Some scientists from John Hopkins School of Medicine in
Baltimore revealed that the painting is a perfect anatomical exploration
of the human brain, which symbolically signifies that God besides
giving life to Adam endows him with intelligence, the supreme quality of
human being.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
There had been huge volumes of
publications, researches and observations concerning the truly
intriguing smile of Mona Lisa, the famous and great artwork by great
Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci. Vinci’s greatest painting delivers
a smile and an expression that continues to bewilder and attract you as
long as you stare at it. When you are convinced of the joyful
expression at the corner of the eye and glance upon elsewhere, the
expression evaporates. The visual illusion perplexed and intrigued
generations of art lovers around the world. Various researches on the
expression of Mona Lisa finally became convinced of one thing that Vinci
actually took advantage of the differences in central and peripheral
vision when observing a thing and thus created that intriguing as well
as captivating look. Till date Vinci is considered to be the master of
incorporating such scientific visual aspects of painting that no other
artist could ever produce
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Picasso is the greatest painter ever lived in modern time with his wide
ranging influence in every aspect of visual art that will continue to
dominate long afterwards. His greatest contribution to the modern art is
his exploration of a new form of painting and art called cubism, which
signifies representing an object in a greater context with several
viewpoints rather than being limited to one. Picasso’s greatest and most
ambitious painting Guernica displays this new form to its widest
exposure to the advantage of exploring philosophical and political
motifs. The cubic objects and expressions in Guernica further influenced
an array of architectures around the world. Architect Le Corbusier
built the chapel named Notre Dame du Haut in Roadchamp taking
inspiration from various cubic elements in Guernica. Scientifically
speaking, this new cubic architecture in Eastern France is less
decadence prone and more useful while offering the look and feel of
diverse aspects put together.
A Sunday Afternoon by Georges Seurat
mong the great impressionist painters Georges Seurat is considered as a
class apart for his typical pointillist technique of creating a dot
covered smoothness of colour that evokes a mellow and dreamy countenance
for the viewer. Georges Seurat was the admirer and follower of the
famous colour theory that said that going beyond the primary colour
would make a different colour for the viewer when seeing the painting
from a certain distance. This theory not only led him to pointillist
paintings he is so famous for but would make him incorporate colour in a
completely different way. His visionary and scientific approach to the
use of colour is a rare element that few artists could ever come close
to achieving.
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
