The impact of art on creative innovations

Introduction

Art work is closely associated to the society that surrounds it. Creative practice and art create new connections between the people and the places they live in order to strengthen their participation in the community life. The relation between art and the people o a place influence the facilitation of an experience or sets of relationship that would either impact on the positive or negative social change. The thesis of this case study will be that: the practice of art can impact upon social innovations through building new opinions and ways of viewing the world. Through Leonard Da Vinci, Joseph Mallord William Turner and Wassily Kandinsky, the case study will show how their art has influenced the society.

Leonard Da Vinci

Leonard Da Vinci was born in 1452 in Italy. He was a sculptor architect, mathematician, inventor, engineer, painter, geologist and a musician. He has been describes as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. He did not believe in idealizing or improving nature. He believed that a true artist was the mirror of nature. Leonard believed that all the classes of natural things should be observed; the bad, the good, the ugly, the beautiful. His belief was response to he saw as increase in nature conventionalization in the paintings of the Renaissance as the artist of the time developed formula of depicting nature. His science was related to his goal of returning reality to nature and he described painting as the nature granddaughter. He started his career at the age of 15 in Florence where he was an apprentice of an artist called Andrea De Verrocchio.

Most of the painting in the sixteenth century reached his hand in perfection though he might not have worked on the directly. His drawings that are used as studies depict similar characteristics to those of his paintings. He increasingly used pyramidal composition. This was a tendency of clustering figures together to show them in physically connected which was an important change from the paintings of early fifteenth century.

During the time of the Renaissance, the values within the society was expressed the changing art. Art became a way of expressing the views of people on politics, religion and the society because one could denote indirect symbols to convey thoughts and opinion of anyone. One of the most famous works of Leonard Da Vince was The Last Supper which was started in 1492 to1497 thereof. This is because the exact time of when he finished on the painting is unknown. The painting illustrates Jesus telling his disciples that one of them will betray him at the last meal celebrating the Passover feast. It is one of the most complex paintings of the Renaissance since it maintained complete humanism by using symbols that could be interpreted in so many ways. He used many symbol in The Last Supper to maintain humanism; used the facial expression to show who Christ was instead of raising him above the other disciples. The facial expression of the apostles represented confusion and wonder as they were unable to comprehend that one of them would betray him. These are just among the few symbols that he used in the painting to express his opinion of the Last Supper.

The Last Supper remains to be one of the most interesting pieces that were ever created since it represent many forms of the Renaissance society. It had an impact in the society since with humanism people started to acknowledge that God gave everyone equal chance. This made the social status to start deteriorates since the peasants were determined to succeed like the wealthy people.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

He was one of the most beloved English artists. He was known as the “painter of light” for his love of bright colours for his landscape and seascape. Water colours, oil and engravings are some of his works. He was born in London near a place called Covent Garden and entered the Royal Academy in 1789 (Gage, 1987). His earliest works are part of the eighteenth century topographical tradition. He was later inspired by artists of Dutch like Willem van der Velde and by the Italianate Claude landscapes and Richard Wilson. He exhibited the water colours in the Royal Academy from 1790 and the oil from 1796. He met the critic john Ruskin who became his greatest champion of his work.

He became interested in the contemporary technology like it can be seen from ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ and ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’. During the time, his free expressive treatment of these subject was sharply criticized nonetheless it is now widely appreciated. Turner bestowed much of his work to the nation and most of his paintings are now at Tate Britain. Many of his oils have deteriorated badly (Gage, 1987).

His art laid the foundation for impressionism. During his time, William was considered a controversial figure but today he is regarded as one of the artists who elevated the painting of landscape to an immense rivaling painting of history. His work was exhibited when he was still a teenage and he devoted his entire life to art thus being successful through out his career. His will was under litigation for very many years.

After his scores of tour through Europe he had accumulated on-site sketches to inform some of his most creative paintings (Gage, 1987). The watercolors that were inspired by these tours provided the rich ground for technical experimentation of Turner and use it as his base of print series. He produces series of small-scale watercolors of topography which induced forms by layering of color according to system of classification of light and dark colours that posed a challenge to most of the contemporary theory of colour. The light-filled of the watercolors and the expressionistic appearance reflected these innovative techniques he had. He adopted his watercolor methods to oil paintings in which he built the foundation of color to create creative suggestive shapes and forms of glowing (Gage, 1987).

Wassily Kandinsky

He is one of the most influential and original artists of the twentieth century. His inner urge to express his emotional perception led to the development of an abstract painting style on the basis of non-representational properties of form and colour (Coates, 2011). The compositions of Wassily were the culmination of his effort to do a pure painting that would provide the same power of emotions just like a musical composition. Kandinsky viewed his compositions as major statement of his ideas in art. They share a number of characteristics that define this monumentality; namely, the extraordinary large formats, the deliberate composition planning, the conscious and the representation transcendence by increasing the imagery of abstract (Coates, 2011).

He became successful teacher at the Bauhaus Institute of Germany. He is credited for being one of the key pioneers of the abstract movement. He produced an array of vibrant colourful pieces in his peak (Harden, 1995). His vacillation from the metaphorical landscape painter in his career to modernistic master has become an inspiration to many other artists in the world. His ability to device fauvism into his early works at the same time as maintaining a feel of realism was major to his initial success. Kandinsky transformed his art work as much as his associated movement and he was a member to several small art movements. He started the Der Blaue Reiter movement along with other fellow artists. It focused on the truth of spirituality through art. The name was derived from one of the figurative painting of Kandinsky. The movement split after the World War II (Harden, 1995).

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Harden, M. (1995). Kandinsky: Compositions. New York: museum of Modern Art.