Material 3 Art Influence

The renaissance was a revolutionary era that gave birth to some of the greatest artist history has seen. With new techniques in drawing and painting, art was revolutionized. We still try to recreate pieces like the old masters did. We copy and try to achieve there techniques. The way they crosshatched, built under paintings and glazed paintings, are all techniques we use today. Pieces from Leonardo Da Vinci and Michael Angelo sometimes can seem impossible to recreate. Figure drawing classes are almost completely based off techniques taught by the old master. In fact, a lot of the classes actually make you recreate pieces by the old masters. I had tried to recreate Leda and the Swan by Leonardo Da Vinci. I failed horribly. I was not able to wrap my mind around the complexity and detail in the work. People will spend years trying to copy the old masters’ techniques.  It is funny, artist at the beginning were trying to push their art into the future, and people today are trying to achieve techniques mastered in the past.