hello everybody!!

I had to do some research on Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi done in 1481. It was an unfinished painting of his done in yellow ochre and brown ink on canvas that was the pasted onto a panel. But anyway, I learned that Leonardo studied the connections between sight and insight, and vision and perception. It was interesting to look at all his sketches of how the eye looks at things and what is reflected back. He took what he learned from that and put in into everyone of his paintings. Each person in his painting is looking in a way where you can tell what they are thinking. Also Leonardo thought out exactly where each person sat in each painting, they are spatially organised according to the perceptions of the actors and their degrees of enlightenment. (There is a common triangle made by people in his paintings which represents that they are the "most enlightened.") If you look at the painting the man at left is supposed to be looking within. The young man at the right is suppposed to show that he is possesing less knowledge than the man on the left, and he looks without. We all already knew Leonardo was pretty crazy but i just figured i would let you know how crazy he was, and how purposeful everything was in his paintings. I know i don't put that much time into people's eyes when i draw them.


Jaclyn Garvey