Leonard Da Vinci (Leonardo
di ser Piero da Vinci) was an Italian Renaissance
polymath: painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,
geologist, cartographer,
botanist, and writer. He was alive from April 15, 1452 until May 2, 1519, during his lifetime he had created some of the most iconic pieces of art which we still view to this day.
Da vinci has created a huge impact on the worlds art today, many say it is because of his unique effect, caused by the scientific approach to his art work. He was one of the few artists who mastered the concept of the “vanishing point”, which involves creating a remarkable sense of depth and three-dimensionality in a two-dimensional frame. His work generally revolves around the human figure, in which most of his art work is based one person or a group of people. Da vinci's work looks realistic to a point, due to the age of the painting some of work has faded although it is still visually easy to make out. The work Leonardo has done tells a story, 'the last supper' was how he visualised Jesus's last meal with his disciples.
This remarkable painting is hanging on a wall of the refectory (dining hall) in the convent of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It is a very remarkable piece of art as each disciple is showing humanly features and facial emotions. The last supper was certainly painted before this, however no artist had painted real people to look and act like real people. This painting has taken Da vinci 3 years to paint, starting in 1495 and finishing in 1498. He had painted the picture for his employer, Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan.
I think Da vinci's work is pleasing on many levels, he has created a structure of fine art, painted people as real human figures and told stores in his own view from his art. In my opinion his work has left an ever lasting effect on a large amount of people. I would use his ways of human development for my own work, however i would not choose Da vinci has a main inspiration as his work is mainly based around humanity and christianity, which is not what i am aiming towards.
KTZ. Kokon to Zai is a
collaboration between Koji Maruyama, Sasko Bezovski and Marjan Pejoski. KTZ
have produced a number of clothing items across the past several years. In my opinion I think the fashion which they have created has been influenced on a social factor, by taking ideas or images from high street individual style. All three designers have give there own style towards the final product of a item clothing.
A number of the inspired by satan, this includes,
sweatshirts with satanic symbols and over sized bomber jackets with death imprinted
down the sleeve. A piece of clothing which stood out most to me was a large
jersey T-shirt with a picture of a zombie on the front, and on the back is the
number 13 with satan above the number. The t-shirt is inspired to look like a
football top, which states at the back that the number of the player is 13 and
their name is satan, although the number 13 is unlucky. Most of the effects on
the clothing is either digital print or applique. The religious references they
have used is satanic imagery, this includes
symbols such as the goats head with horns and repeated number “666”.
The design of prints have been given a set way to go, for example the pictures of the Jersey, this t-shirt has been given a format of layout of digital printing. It has been created with the influential imagery of a Football jersey.
In my opinion the edgy street wear fashion is a pleasing style of clothing. I would wear this fashion as it is quirky and different. I think the design on the clothing items could be a inspiration for me for my own work as it is has a different style to the original style which is seen on the high street, it is more individual.
