tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post8929000714172455522..comments2024-03-28T14:44:58.409-07:00Comments on Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: L.A.’s First Leonardo Show… in 1949Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-79555983398141224942010-03-26T09:48:56.712-07:002010-03-26T09:48:56.712-07:00I agree that Leonardo is the easiest artist to rep...I agree that Leonardo is the easiest artist to reproduce in black and white and still get something from it. He was all line, his color was basically irrelevant, and compositions as opposed to structure of colors, lines and forms obvious. Plus as he was always experimenting, his colors tended to start to fade immediately, as both La Gioconda and the Last Supper did, his fresco actually falling apart.<br /><br />He was actualy the first science fiction inventor and illustrator, none of his contraptions and ideas ever actually worked, and neither did his paitings. He was not scientific, but always wanted to come up with things his own way, whether they worked or not. His drawings are incredible, perhaps the best draughtsman ever, but his paitings are grossly overrated. <br /><br />Line is purely mental, it is independant, and lacks the cohesive nature and passion of color. Which is why the neo-clasicists hated it, though Ingre's was incredible in its subtlety. As his line was decorative and not as classic as he claimed. True artists do resolve supposed contradictions,a and are often so themselves.<br /><br />Leonardo makes one think,but thats it, as he never actually fulfilled his ideas, they were fiction. Michelangelo is the one who actually did and created the variety of art that lived on, from sculpture to architecture to painting to fortifications. <br /><br />This voracious need to find Leonardo's is quite strange, its like fools gold, always seeing thngs that truly aren't there. I simply enjoy his drawings, the rest, academic Leprechauns gold, it keeps em busy and writing treatises, what could be better than something that isn't really there. The possibilities are endless, and so irrelevant.<br /><br />art collegia delenda est<br /><br />It really is time to save the Watts/Rodia Towers, and tear down the Ivories. Hear that Getty? Stop going to outer mongolia and silly spiral jetties and get to work in your own backyard, this is important, not environment changng and destroying absurdist self glorifying rock blasted rock. <br /><br />i will have the possibility for the Music of the America's pavilions at the towers on my blog soon, you have it Getty. Get to work.Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.com