Van Gogh, Da Vinci, and Picasso: Geniuses Spanned Through
Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso...all famous painters notorious for evoking emotion with their paintings. The whole purpose of painting is to make the viewer feel something, not just think a painting a lovely wall decoration. Painting is a form of self-expression, elegance, and intelligence. It’s thoughts and feelings dancing across a naked canvas in multi-colored hues. Painting is more than just “painting”-- for some, it’s a way of life. Painters are made, not born. Certain situations, instabilities, losses, and rejections serve as a catalyst for wielding talent. Painters need inspiration, which they gather from life experience, or of what they have witnessed and participated in life. Vincent van Gogh was rejected by three women whom he loved in his life, as well was mentally and emotionally unstable. He was always known as keeping to himself as a child. He lived a prostitute, Sein, who was pregnant with a five-year old daughter. She became a model he used frequently. Eventually, he left her and had a love affair with Margot Begemann, who later attempted suicide. (Brooks, pg 3-4). Leonardo da Vinci was born an illegitimate child, and when his father died, he was left with nothing. He g
Even though he was ten when his first talent started becoming obvious, Picasso’s first painting that was recognized was painted when he was fifteen. He won a gold medal for his painting, “Science and Charity,” depicting a nun, a doctor, and a child at an ill woman’s bedside. (RenoidAuction.com, pg 3). The journey from being a child to a painter is a rocky one. Some take one or many titles before finally going with their true calling. Others know exactly what they’ll do, but experiment in other activities. Being a hired painter for the Pope, Leonardo’s work was mostly related to the church, since he was employed by the church. His most famous religious painting is “The Last Supper,” which depicted Jesus and his twelves disciples eating at the last supper before he was betrayed and then crucified. (kfki.hu, pg 3). Leonardo was more than simply a painter. He scribbled plans for future aircrafts, assault vehicles, even a submarine. He designed machinery, weapons, and dabbled in architecture. He also dissected cadavers and painted them, which became diagrams of the human anatomy. He is considered one of the history’s greatest geniuses ahead of his time. (famouspainter.com, pg 1). for. The one that was made the most famous. Every artist of all sorts given birth to one from the womb of the mind.
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