Marcelo Guimarães Lima LEONARDO DA VINCI - Flux, Spirals And The Aesthetics Of Destruction
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Marcelo Guimarães Lima, LEONARDO DA VINCI - Flux, Spirals And The Aesthetics Of Destruction
The Deluge drawings of Leonardo as a unity of artistic and scientific subjects as related to the reception of Lucretius in the Renaissance
Paper presented at the CROSSING THE LINE CONFERENCE, American University in Dubai,
Dubai, UAE, 2014
"Leonardo's innovative sfumato technique (of great impact for subsequent developments of the art of painting) is not just a practical procedure, but in itself already a new substantial aesthetic concept and artistic point of view, it recasts the structural elements of Early Renaissance classicism into living, pulsating forms - the transitions of light upon surfaces, and light itself as energy, as the living context of form and vision, translates a movable, dynamic universe of communicative flows by sight, touch and movement. The principle of movement is called anima by Leonardo, the soul or spirit that animates the human body as it animates the body of the world. The "spirit" (an old term for an emerging new concept) considered in unity with the body, as the immanent power or principle of an immanent, that is, materially determined reality. The art of painting in Leonardo is the expression of the "soul" of the world: artistic form dialectically demonstrates the permanence of movement within a universe in perpetual transformation, it represents the constancy of change."
Marcelo Guimarães Lima
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