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Vitruvian Man : da Vinci was influenced by the ideas and theories of Vitruvius, a first century Roman architect.

Vitruvius believed that the proportions and measurements of the human body were perfect and correct. This belief led him to propose that a properly constructed temple should reflect and relate to the parts of the human body. He demonstrated that a human body can be symmetrically inscribed within both a circle and a square and used this idea in his planning.

Leonardo's illustration is a male figure whose outstretched limbs touch the circumference of a circle and the edges of a square. His navel marks the center of the circle. Da Vinci superimposed a second image to demonstrate movement and liveliness. The man appears as a living being positioned simultaneously within the circle and the square. Faint lines on his form show the significant points of the proportion scheme. In the text he wrote around the drawing, da Vinca compares the body to a building and links the proportions of the human body with architectural planning.


BODY RATIO’s

How do you measure? Start point, end point, fill the space between in a straight line.The unit we will use is the length of the circumference of your forehead. We will create a “forehead” as a unit.

Do not measure yourself? Why?

Is there a difference between wool or paper?

DIRECT COMPARE your forehead unit to others in the room.


BODY RATIO’s

Direct Compare using your forehead unit to find other body parts that are equal length or almost equal length.

Create a second unit of measure using the circumference of your wrist. Compare wrist to forehead.... Is the wrist a unit embedded within the forehead unit.. As in wrist is 1/3 of a forehead? So 3 wrists = one forehead?


YOLKS

Crack your egg and separate the yolk.


Egg tempera was a favourite paint of Early artists. It was made by crushing up to powder things like stones, sticks, bones, shells, dirt, leaves and mixing them with water and egg.

The egg holds everything together as the “paint” dries. So the paint is tempered with egg.

What do you think might be problems with this kind of paint? .


Paint is more than 100 000 years old but we would not really recognize it as paint. It was more like charcoal from burned wood and crushed rock or clay mixed with water.

At some point people discovered that you could add egg, honey or animal fts to make the colors last longer. .


Gradually the use of oil replaced yolk. One of the oils used in oil paints is linseed oil which comes from flax seeds. Linen, the favourite material that artists who use oil paints use as their canvas also comes from the flax plant. Other oils used in oil paints include Safflower oil, Walnut Oil or Poppyseed Oil, are also popular and can be used to lighten colors such as white because they do not "yellow" as they dry whereas linseed oil does.


Recent advances in chemistry have produced modern water miscible oil paints that can be used and cleaned up with water. Small alterations in the molecular structure of the oil creates this water miscible property.


You can actually paint with lots of different things?

Here’s a recipe for using condensed milk. .


Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed.

It is usually sweetened with sugar, so it might say "condensed milk” or "sweetened condensed milk” Check your can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk


Paints are not colour. Colour is a wavelengthWhy is red paint red?

Paints contain pigments that are affected by the light that hits them!!!

Your eye interprets colour.


Aside from the physiological effects, the New York Center for Arts Education lists other benefits:

•think widely, with an open mind•observe and describe, analyze and interpret•express feelings, with or without words.•problem-solving skills, critical-thinking skills, dance, music, theater and art-making skills, language and vocabulary of the arts• multiple points of view: more than one answer•Allow the brain and body to synch in comfort, imagine and experiment, non judgemental•Collaborate•introduce cultures from around the world• build confidence. feel pride.• build community.


Kimberly Sheridan, Ed.D. notes the ARTS teach students to:

•Observe the world carefully and discard preconceptions in order to envision something and then create it

•Go beyond just learning a skill to express a personal voice

•Problem-solve and persist despite frustration and setbacks

•Reflect on results and ask what could improve them


Michigan State University have found a very strong correlation between childhood engagement in the creative arts and measurable success later in life.

Children who were exposed to a wide variety of arts and crafts were more likely to create unique inventions that are worthy of patents, come up with ideas good enough to start a new company, or publish provocative papers on science and technology.

The researchers suggest that children exposed to arts and crafts are able to think “out of the box” since a lot of working with hands involve figuring out how to solve problems creatively.


Co-authors Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein reached this conclusion:

“The most eminent and innovative among them are significantly more likely to engage in arts and crafts avocations” than the average Joe.

University of Kansas, students who were selected to visit a museum shows stronger critical thinking skills, displayed higher levels of social tolerance, exhibited greater historical empathy

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