Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are his masterpieces. Their names are almost the most famous paintings on our planet. He must be a painter, an outstanding painter, an almost incomparable painter full of mystery. However, no more than twelve paintings have been handed down. But what he left to the world was more than 6,000 small manuscripts. Many of these manuscripts are more than just sketches. There are not only geometric figures and plant sketches, but also a large number of anatomical drawings, engineering sketches, and even various invention device drawings. As far as those inventions are concerned, there are both a musical instrument called "Matoujiao lyre" and a "weapon of mass destruction" called "sickle chariot". There are too many mysteries in him and his works. In the face of "Mona Lisa's smile", people like to speculate for no reason what kind of inspiration he wants to give the world! According to the simple classification of science and art, he is not only an artist but also a scientist. In his manuscript, there is a mysterious da Vinci code. Science code, art code!
Science is a poetic aesthetics.
He lived in Italy on 1452- 15 19 at the age of 67. It was the late period of the Western Renaissance. "Renaissance", especially from 1400 to 1500, refers to the vigorous development of European culture in the past century. According to our general view, the Renaissance is the end of the "long and dark Middle Ages" ruled by religious theology. It is a scientific and artistic revolution brought by a humanistic ideological and cultural movement. Leonardo da Vinci is the most outstanding representative of this "Renaissance" period. He has made great achievements in the fields of science and art, however, his achievements in the field of art almost completely cover up his exploration and achievements in the field of science. Even in the design of anatomy, the study of geometric figures, and even the exploration of mechanical principles, it is easy for us to take it for granted that this is just accumulating materials for his paintings or exploring painting techniques. In reality, it may not be that simple.
In fact, he has accumulated material for his paintings. In order to draw the folds of clothing lines, he soaked the cloth in gypsum water, dried it, and used it to observe the light and shadow, so that the clothing lines of the human body produced a three-dimensional effect. Through dissection, he tried to experiment step by step in the manuscript of the statue of St. Jerome. What kind of bones, joints and muscles will be affected when the right hand holds the stone and the arm is open, from neck to shoulder and from shoulder to arm? There are many discussions about pure mathematics and geometry in his manuscript. He studies the perspective of geometric objects. He left many manuscripts about stereoscopic perspective to solve the spatial depth of double stairs and arches in the unfinished pilgrimage of the three sages of the East. He carefully observed everything in nature, drew beautiful sketches of plants and studied the whirlpool of water. "This is how beauty quietly observes the smallest existence in nature and discovers the incredible order in these existence." Discovering order and clarifying laws are both scientific goals. However, science is a poetic aesthetics. His paintings are just scientific manuscripts.
The perfect man is the measure of the universe.
So he dabbled in science not only for his paintings. He dissected more than 30 bodies and left nearly 240 anatomical manuscripts. He doesn't just study the bones and muscles needed for painting itself. He even went deep into the digestive system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, genitourinary system, and even the embryonic development of babies. He wants to go deep into the deepest part of life, and he wants to know the essence of life. His vitruvian figure scale is still the favorite picture in many medical books. Of course, its symmetry and harmony also make the picture still popular in various cultural decorations. He believes that a meticulous and perfect human body is the standard to measure the scale of the universe. He seems to be looking for the core of beauty hidden in the depths of his soul through the anatomy of muscles.
He studies the vortex of water flow, and he looks for the law of water flow. He once had a grand plan. He wants to completely transform the "water supply and drainage" system of the whole city of Milan through the design of banks, dams and bridges, connect the two rivers in the city with canals, and discharge water of different heights through a double-layer dam gate. He studied mechanical principles, even imitated the wings of birds, and tried to design airplanes. Of course, his research is not only theoretical, but also a thorough practitioner. Da Vinci, who was only 19 years old at that time, helped his teacher design a lifting device and successfully installed a golden ball with a diameter of 6 meters and a weight of 2 tons in a church.
Beauty is an intuition, but it is only for simple people.
Of course, his assistant teacher was verrocchio, a painter and sculptor in Florence, who made him paint eggs for three years in the famous story Da Vinci Painting Eggs. According to records, Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a lawyer. When he was fourteen, his father sent him to verrocchio's studio as an apprentice. In recent years, the story about "Da Vinci painted an egg" has been questioned as much as The Da Vinci Code. However, it is still possible. Judging from the large number of manuscripts he left behind, he never gave up the pursuit of perfection. Many of his works seem to be only semi-finished products, but it is these semi-finished products that bear his thinking about life, his pursuit of science and his understanding of art and its process. It is said that when he was 20 years old, because two angels were added to the lower left corner of the teacher's "The Baptism of Jesus Christ", the teacher was amazed, so he stopped painting and concentrated on sculpture.
Even though he is so versatile, his career path is not smooth sailing. The 30-year-old Da Vinci applied to a duke in Milan for a job, but he applied for the position of "military engineer". He said he could build bridges, guns, fortifications and chariots. He studied guns that can fire in rapid succession, ladders for siege, armored chariots, carriages with rotating sickles, huge crossbows and so on. At that time, it was simply a "big killer." Perhaps, he is just looking for the application of mechanical principles! It seems that in the end, the duke only gave him the position of "court musician". So, he also left a sketch of the design of the "horse's head claw lyre". He has the talent and impulse to design. He was accused of homosexuality and was later dismissed, so he designed many escape tools. Of course, this musician, in his sketches of warships, also admitted that he didn't want to make these inventions public, so as not to erase them at will!
"His beautiful face soothed the mourners."
After scientific exploration, he seems to feel that "beauty" is a bigger field, just like through scientific anatomy again and again, he has not found anything called "soul" in the human body. Where is the "soul"? He returned to the field of beauty in great disillusionment, trying to reintegrate the limbs cut by rational analysis. Beauty is not a science, but lies in the most mysterious core of the mind. Beauty is not a muscle, but a smile. This is Jiang Xun's interpretation of the beauty of Leonardo da Vinci.
According to Jiang Xun, Leonardo always reflected himself in his paintings. Secretly left a sum for himself, and also left the world with a difficult mystery of Leonardo da Vinci. He once put himself in the lower right of the picture in the grand and lively scene of the pilgrimage of the three sages of the East. That is a handsome young man with blind eyes. At that time, he was twenty-nine years old. 15 16 years old, he painted that self-portrait for himself at the age of 64. In the photo, he is very old. The vicissitudes of time have made him as profound as thinkers and philosophers. There are too many mysteries about him! Some people even suspect that Mona Lisa has a self-portrait hidden under her mysterious smile. Perhaps, he really played a modest joke with the world. Just like the words he wrote on the manuscript with his left hand.
"My son is in Sichuan, and the deceased is like a husband!"
In Jiang Xun's narrative, he likes to use the word "clear as water". In The Last Supper, Jiang Xun wrote: "If there is one kind of wisdom that can predict the future life, will it be that the face of Jesus in this painting is as clear as water? Clear as water, he has surpassed sadness and joy. " In Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa smiles at Qian Qian and walks up to the audience in front of her. From tearful worship to the most dismissive contempt, it is as clear as water for her. " This Mona Lisa stayed with Leonardo da Vinci and was even taken to Paris at last. He said, because I haven't finished painting. At the end of his life, he also had a more important work, namely, 15 13' s "Pondering over the Vortex and Sketch of the Old Man". The old man in the picture, leaning on crutches, observes the water and thinks. It seems that our Kong Old Master Q sighed: "The deceased is like a husband"! Religion is as clear as philosophy, science and art, and water! Never give up day and night, from ancient times to the present.
After the most meticulous scientific argumentation, Leonardo da Vinci seems to believe that "beauty" is an intuition, just for simple people. This may be the core point for Jiang Xun to crack the beauty of Leonardo da Vinci! What exactly is Da Vinci's password? Is it science? Or art? Or is it just a "beautiful" dream of "Fly with Me" about science and art? Or, science and art, who is whose manuscript? Perhaps they are just "beautiful" manuscripts. And the revelation of "beauty" is a mysterious smile. Let's borrow his Angel of the Body. Perhaps, it is a kind of interleaving, the interleaving of god and flesh, and even the interleaving of men and women! Science and art, like Leonardo da Vinci in his experiment, put different pigments in two streams and observe their confluence! The manuscript he left us is the process of meeting.