Posts Tagged ‘Degas’
Shapes and emotion
May 6, 2014
Above: Leonardo da Vinci “Lady with an Ermine” Shapes are essential to the character of each artistic image. Have you ever glimpsed a painting from a great distance, and understood something of the emotion conveyed by the artist even before discerning the full content of the picture? Along with tone and colour contrast, clear shapes within […]
2014 | Blog | Tags: Botticelli, conveying emotion, Degas, Leonardo, negative shapes, Picasso, shapes, Uccello
Art vs. science: a closer look
January 9, 2014
Following on from my previous article, let’s now look more closely at the approaches of scientists and artists. Can they really have much in common? I’ll start by outlining scientific procedure, and then see how the artistic process compares. Scientific procedure Oxford English Dictionary definition of “scientific”: “a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since […]