A master at work

Michael Angelo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. Two of his best-known works, the Pieta and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. (David pictured right)

(Pieta pictured left)




















 Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last  Judgement on the altar wall of the  Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512).

ahhhh the Reniassance

The Reniassance. such a lovely time. such a lovley time for art was well. the Reniassance was a lot of portraits of people who were higher up in status. With these portaits they learn how to light and shading. most depicted kings with their faimilies and or just by themselves.

walk like an egyptian

The egyptians, such an intresting era to learn about but we have to thank them for their tributes to the art world. They showed every thing in their writings and pictures. They documented offerings, weddings, new gods, ect. They have set the way on how we document and draw to a whole new level.  Also in their architecture.It is amazing that they had the ability to buils all the tombs, pyrimids memorials. it just boggles the mind.

Art. It's 3 simple letters but it entails so much. We use it in so many ways. We communicate with it, make fashion statements with it, even propels us to the future with it. Art first started by the cave men who used art to communicate with his fellow man. They drew bison, raindeer, horses ect. to let others know that what they needed for warmth, food, even tools. These said drawings were done by sticks, furs( which they used that to give it a spray effect) and their fingers.The colors they used were things around them such as charcoal. By then the Indians perfected these techniques by using berry juices and flower dyes to obtain more colors. They also used different tools to achieve different line strokes.

As we go on throughout day to day we neglect to understand that art is changing all around us. And it's changing rapidaly as time goes by. We see art, we wear it, we even talk with art. We will take a trip to how it all got started. And we will end up to today's art as we know it. And how paintings, fashion, technology keeps on changing.