Friday, August 21, 2009 . 4:02 PM
Hi all!It's study week this week so there's no school!
Updates for last week
Went to the National Museum with slut and cyyp. Free entry for students! :)
Saw some arts which was great.
And to Da Vinci an inspirational exhibition last Sunday. Also free because cyyp got free tickets haha! From this trip I learnt quite a lot, I think it's much better than the one at National museum.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".
Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, respectively, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on everything from the Euro to text books to t-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.
He was really a genius. He knew everything and almost invented everything. *Claps*
Too bad we can't take pic inside. For more visit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
Do happily ever after really exist ?
Is luxurious really that important ?
Does money bring happiness ?
What really makes you happy ?
Who are you ?
What do you want in life ?
Hmmm...
Arriving~
Singapore fashion gallery
Olden days make up
Singapore olden days food gallery
Slut like this pic.
These are fake incase you're wondering
