/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3043508
it's impossible to deny the connection between michelangelo and van gogh, they were both more concerned with representing the unique beauty in each subject.

da vinci was more interested in the painting as an illusion and a performance, michelangelo saw the painting as an extension of nature itself.

ruan jia is more like da vinci. The whole thing is a performance. And before anyone says "da vinci studied human bodies and drew the vitruvian man", much of his legacy is styles of painting he experimented with. Michelangelo's legacy is unique to him, and there was very little to be studied or understood about him other than he made great artwork. He was devoid of technique in a way, and so was van gogh. They did what came most naturally to them.