For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that’s quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn’t even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Leonardo da Vinci: How to See the World Like Nobody Else
For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that’s quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn’t even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity.
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I love reading about the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci and how he was an unintentional genius. All Leonardo Da Vinci had was curiosity. He was constantly asking questions and searching for those answers. Through that he developed art skills, study science, and created new methods. I also love his belief in the connection between art and science, and how we can’t have one without the other. Like yin and yang, light and dark. One cannot exist without the other, and this should be a very vocal idea now considering the political arguments constantly threatening to shut down the fine arts budgets and programs. Our society needs art as much as it needs science. I think we should all learn this much from Leonardo Da Vinci since he seemed to know what he was doing. Everyone respects this man and should come to inhabit his style of learning and painting.
As someone who has never considered himself creative in any meaningful way, I've always struggled to understand how people develop such amazing artistic creations. Learning that creativity comes from training and practice, and isn't simply an inherent trait, is incredibly encouraging to me! What I found most interesting about this article is the way the author describes innovation as the intersection of art and science in such a way that the borders between the two become indistinct. As the author writes about DaVinci, "He simply watched, noted, and contextualized things as he saw fit. It wasn’t like he was intentionally studying science one day and art another. To him, they were one and the same thing. They danced together, and it wasn’t possible to understand one without the other." To be able to say that my process is somewhat like DaVinci's most certainly sounds arrogant; After all, he is one of the most famous icons in human recorded history. However, when people ask me to describe my major, I often use almost the exact phrasing that the author uses- Theatrical Design & Production truly, in my belief, is the intersections of the arts and the sciences to create a world that is truly spectactular.
This article was interesting. I don’t know if we can prove any of it. How do we know how a man who lived 500 years ago lived his life an how he thought and how he learned, but it is interesting to think about how the geniuses of history and the modern era think and make their way through life. The claim that Da Vinci dint see the difference between art and science is very interesting. The concept that the only distinction between these two fields are the societal names that we put on them. The distinction is a social construct. I wonder what this world would be like if we did not make huge distinction between STEM and the arts. Would we have more cross disciplinary work? Would we eliminate the mindset that most people have. Either the one where people tell themselves “I’m not an artist.” Even though everyone is an artist in their own way. Whether that is with a paintbrush or a computer writing perfectly composed code for robot. Or when people (myself and my peers included) say “that’s why I’m at art school” as a quip to basically explain why they made a stupid choice, like saying I’m not in STEM because I’m not smart enough even though we can build lifts and code for media.
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