Half platonic: the drawing

The don’t give attention to daily behavior that we use, among the translation of a ideal to reality, that is normal, but we can think that this gesture has a source that we can call as Platonic, because is the translation of an idea or think in reality; when we leave a quite to somebody or to ourselves, we stopped an idea, a think and an opinion, that is an idea; this translation is necessary to remember something, it is normal, certainly, but this process come from ideal conception, and it is translated to reality, hence it is the platonic process; a writer writes an idea to a romance or a tale, and he immediately stopped it with a quite or short description; it is the half-platonic nature, because half of think is on the reality, because we have written, but half, usually the whole think, is in brain, thereupon ideal again; half-platonic nature. Same intellectual process is equal to the artist, that when has costumer, hence commission, he must stopped that ideal, certainly half ideal think, that he develops to whole project, but the costumer that has scant fantasy can’t imagine the painting or sculpture or build, thereupon he needs of a graphical project, and for painting a pictorial sketch, that is always the half-platonic translation; it is usually was accomplished to a description and count of cost of colors and, in formal rapport, also to a contract. Regard the artist the quite is necessary to Francesco Melzi(1491-1570), pupil of Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519), that picket the quite of Leonard and after he printed the About painting;, but to origin it was very much quite of Leonardo, that he written immediately from impressions from painting, that he seen. The pictorial translation is similar, or equal; the artist is likewise half-platonic process, because when he has seen something, he keeps it in memory, concept likewise Platonic, and after through he translates it in reality, Annibale Carracci to Farnese gallery in Rome(Figs.1-4), is graphical explain of this process; naturally these drawings has been necessary to costumer, this is the cardinal Edward Farnese(1573-1626), to consider the figures and the cost. Same calculous the July 2th(1443-1513), pope, made to Michelangelo(1475-1564) to the painting on vault of Sistine chapel; the drawing of Michelangelo are very relevant(Figs.5-8); the technology has certainly aided the man, today we have the computers, but the process is same, and we, every day, on paper or computer we use same method; hence time passes but the criterion is same; it is the course and recourse of Vincenzo Vico(1668-1744), that has told about the same habit of men during the centuries and constant repetition of history.

Alessandro Lusana  

    

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