The Words that can be described the works of the great Italian artist Giotto di Bondone, is a line of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky:
I'm a man, I'm in the middle of the world,
Behind me myriads of infusoria
Before me myriads of stars.
I went in between his full height -
Connecting the Two shores of the sea,
Two space connecting bridge.
These words describe not only the writer but also the whole era in which he lived. Paintings by Giotto and is the bridge connecting the two phases in the art of painting.
Giotto lived at the turn of two centuries - the 13th and 14th. Exactly in the middle of his life occurred in this period, and this era in all of world culture is called the age of Dante and Giotto. They were contemporaries.
Philosopher Merab Mamardashvili about the paintings by Giotto, once said: “Giotto came into the transcendental zero”. This complex phrase at the time, caused many to laugh. But if you think about it, it just still impossible to say. Because Giotto as a painter started from scratch.
Look at the most famous paintings of Giotto. What he did in art, that he suggested to the art, it has never been done before. He started from scratch, and maybe in this sense, every man of genius is out in the transcendental zero. Michelangelo, Paul Cezanne and Kazimir Malevich did it. They started from the beginning, from scratch. In this sense, and Giotto came into the transcendental zero. Because of him we can say calmly and confidently: it is with Giotto Bondone begins the modern European painting.
What we know of the paintings of Giotto? It ‘the adoration of the Magi”, “in the temple", "the entombment”, “the Blessing of Anna”, “Crucifixion”, “the Miracle source”. Giotto di Bondone paintings and frescoes wrote for the chapel del arena in Padua, churches in Florence and Assisi. His handwriting is impossible to confuse with the manner of other artists. Description of Giotto's paintings is a retrospective of the gospel parables. He left us with images of Christian saints such as St. Francis, St Lawrence, St Stephen, John the Evangelist etc.
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The Paintings of Giotto with the names in addition to Padua, Florence and the Vatican is in the catalogues of the collections of such museums like the Jacquemart-Andre and Musee du Louvre in France, the National gallery of art in Washington and in Raleigh (University of North Carolina), in Paris, in Germany and in the UK.
Before him in the European world was accepted or Byzantine icon painting. The paintings of Giotto di Bondone with the names of the biblical stories speak for themselves. But this does not icons. Is the famous “Ognissanti Madonna”, stored in the Uffizi, and Giotto's painting “Flight into Egypt".
The Biographer of Italian artists Giorgio Vasari tells us the legend existed at that time: Giotto was a pupil of the painter Cimabue. And in the Uffizi Museum next to hang two paintings, two Madonnas - Madonna of Cimabue and Giotto Madonna.
When you look at both the Film and compare them, even if you know nothing about art, you can see the difference not only between artists but also between two eras, between two entirely different principles. You can see the absolute difference. You realize that they absolutely have different perceptions of the world.
The paintings of Cimabue extremely refined, elegant, you can say that he is an artist not just Byzantine, medieval, and Gothic. His Madonna ethereal, beautiful, fine. Long fingers, long hands holding a baby, and make a sign that they're keeping him. The reports adopted in Byzantine art of the Eastern Canon: narrow face, long eyes, thin nose, sadness in his eyes. Is a flat disembodied canonical conditional painting of the icon, the face. Not person, not personality type, and a face.
Hanging beside the icon, or, say, already painting, Giotto. On the throne, inlaid, beautiful throne in a style that only then was adopted, only then in Vogue. This inlaid marble. Woman sitting broad-shouldered, powerful, young, with red cheeks. Firmly holding the baby. The perfect white shirt. The body emphasizes its power. And she quietly looking at us. In her face there is no suffering. It is full of high human dignity and peace. This is not Madonna, not the virgin. This is a Madonna in the Italian late sense and understanding of this story. That is, Mary, and the Lovely lady.
It's safe to say that what made Giotto in painting, held in the European visual arts prior to impressionism. That Giotto created what in modern language is called composition. What is composition? This is how the artist sees the story, he as he imagines. He acts as the witness participants in the events. It creates the illusion as if was there in person.
That is, the artist is the writer, Director and actor of his paintings. His creation is a theater in which the actors are acting, and directing these actors he is an artist. “I was there! The word,I was there and it was so», - says almost your creations of Giotto. Well, is it conceivable for the medieval consciousness is to assert!
Giotto appears before us a person who is responsible for what he writes. And his paintings, in particular, “Kiss of Judas” and “Flight into Egypt", is the murals, written by an eyewitness of the action.
Approximately in 1303, Giotto received a wonderful offer to paint a small Church, which was built in the city of Padua on the Roman Arena. Biographer Giotto, or rather, one of his biographers Giorgio Vasari gives a very interesting information. He says that Giotto came to Padua to paint the Church, briefly ahead of his company, that is comrades. Just as in the Middle ages, Andrei Rublev wrote companions in the same way and to the West of the Church was painted by the artist with a big name, companions, with their art team. “Kiss of Judas" of the fresco, which he wrote himself. In all likelihood, this is one of the few it absolutely works as “Trinity” Rublev, and it's really fully reveals the identity of Giotto.
And when we look at the mural “Kiss of Judas", then immediately allocated to the eye center of the composition. In this center there are the main dramatic events. We see Judas embracing Christ absorbs him. And these two figures are Central. We see on the right, as became the high priest of the Jerusalem temple. He is pointing the finger at Christ. And on the left we see the Apostle Peter, who thrice denied, yet thrice the rooster crowed, but still pulled out a bread knife and cut off their ear. We see how he throws a knife at Judas, but the path is barred crowd, and if we follow the direction of the hands of the high priest and for the direction of the knife, we find that these lines converge on the cloak of Judas, just the faces. Therefore, we can say that the center of the composition are not two pieces joined together, and two faces. But interestingly this song to read.
Always on Giotto say with a certain irony: “opened Giotto?”. For example, in “Amarcord” Fellini, when the school teacher asks art that was created by Giotto, the students shouting: “Term”. It is very funny. After all, no prospect of Giotto is not created. This is an incorrect statement. He's not a prospect created another picture space, where the space should be to understand the action unfolding before the viewer.
Take a Look at the mural “Kiss of Judas". There's a crowd of people. And this crowd went into the night. Across the dark sky flares burning right and left. You feel the movement in the sky. Across the dark sky the lights, flames waver, you feel the excitement and the electrification of the crowd. What is interesting in the crowd? The fact that she is not indifferent. In this crowd, if you look carefully, developed by almost every participant. There is an incredibly simply transmitted condition.
Giotto was the first and the last. He is called, is not only set, but decided a huge number of tasks, not just creating a composition ‘I, Giotto, the decision is dramatic, you can see it: here's my characters, here's my choir!”, and when it worked it psychologically when he shows one action mnogogrannost.
Each of his murals is of great amazement and even bewilderment. How a person in one lifetime, not having precedents, that is, out in the transcendental zero, created with a clean slate of modern European art, the composition as a temporary action, as a causal relationship, saturating it different time and a very large number of psychological hints?
In this article we have looked at only two paintings of Giotto with the names “Kiss of Judas” and “Ognissanti Madonna”. The wizard you can admire the infinite. You can look at it for hours, but a lifetime is not enough to tell about all the works of Giotto di Bondone, whose paintings were and time value and time left. All of them - create the greatest artist and person, starting from zero.
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