The transformation of psychic motive power into the different forms of
activity is perhaps as little convertible without loss, as in the case of
physical powers. Leonardo's example teaches how many other things one must
follow up in these processes. Not to love before one gains full knowledge of the
thing loved presupposes a delay which is harmful. When one finally reaches
cognition he neither loves nor hates properly; one remains beyond love and
hatred. One has investigated instead of having loved. It is perhaps for this
reason that Leonardo's life was so much poorer in love than those of other great
men and great artists. The storming passions of the soul-stirring and consuming
kind, in which others experience the best part
of their lives, seem to have missed him. oil paintings for sale
There are still other consequences when one follows Leonardo's dictum.
Instead of acting and producing one just investigates. He who begins to divine
the grandeur of the universe and its needs readily forgets his own insignificant
self. When one is struck with admiration and becomes truly humble he easily
forgets that he himself is a part of that living force, and that according to
the measure of his own personality he has the right to make an effort to change
that destined course of the world, the world in which the insignificant is no
less wonderful and important than the great. art oil paintings
Solmi thinks that Leonardo's investigations started with his art, he tried to investigate the attributes and laws of light, of color, of shades
and of perspective so as to be sure of becoming a master in the imitation of
nature and to be able to show the way to others. It is probable that already at that time he overestimated the
value of this knowledge for the artist. Following the guide-rope of the
painter's need, he was then driven further and further to investigate the
objects of the art of painting, such as animals and plants, and the proportions
of the human body, and to follow the path from their exterior to their interior
structure and biological functions,oil paintings online, which really also express themselves in
their appearance and should be depicted in art. And finally he was pulled along
by this overwhelming desire until the connection was torn from the demands of
his art, so that he discovered the general laws of mechanics and divined the
history of the stratification and fossilization of the Arno-valley, until he
could enter in his book with capital letters the cognition: Il sole non si
move (The sun does not move). His investigations were thus extended over
almost all realms of natural science, in every one of which he was a discoverer
or at least a prophet or forerunner.However, his curiosity continued to be directed to the outer world, something kept him away from the investigation of the
psychic life of men; there was little room for psychology in the "Academia
Vinciana," for which he drew very artistic and very complicated emblems. where to buy oil paintings
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