Leonardo da Vinci

1. The artist

2. The colours

3. Outstanding paintings

4. Human anatomy

5. Flying machines

1. The artist

1. The artist

1. what do you know about Leonardo da Vinci?2. what type of artist was he?3. Was he only a painter?4. In what period of history did he live?5. Name some of his most famous creations...Investigate and Develop a keynote in which you add information about This italian artist, his historic period, his outstanding artworks, his style of painting, anecdotes about him or about the ‘Mona Lisa’...

2. The Colours

2. The Colours

1. what do you Remember about classifying colours?2. whIch are the primary and the secondary colours?3. How can you obtain tertiary colours?4. Red, green, yellow or Brown... Are they primary, seconDary, or tertiary colours?Da Vinci was very intelligent and loved studying and learning. He Learnt very much about colours...Watch the following video and make a scheme of all the different ways of classifying colours. You can use 'inspiRation maps'.

3. Outstanding paintings

3. Outstanding paintings

Leonardo loved experimenting with colours, and he combined them studying the Feelings they provoked in viewers.Remember all the different ways of classifying colours.Download the following images and colour them. Use a different combination on each work (remember to write on each image the combination you use).You can use any crayons, coloured pencils, watercolours... or even 'Sketches School'.When you finish look at the different results And try to expRess what you feel with words.

4. Human anatomy

4. Human anatomy

Leonardo studied the proportions of man with arms and legs open in different ways, inside a square and a circle... He learnt much about human anatomy Before real doctors did!Now you shall do the 'Vitruvian man activity': take 2 photos of yourselF in the same position as his work.Next, in Keynote use 'instant alpha' to make the background disAppear (be careful, you mustn't disappear!). Then download the template, include your photos and adjust them, one on another, trying to achieve the same result as da vinci.You can study your proportions like the Vitruvian man!

5. Flying machines!

5. Flying machines!

Among many other things, Leonardo was a great inventor, and he was very inspired by NATURE! He spent much time observing and observing...And observing nature!That’s how he invented many flying machines...Now watch the following video, follow the stePs, and make the different 'flying machines'. Then you can Organize a race and Film iT!

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HE WROTE ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED LETTERS... MOST OF THEM ADDRESSED TO THEOApart from painting, Vincent also liked writing. An example of this is that he often wrote letters, about 800. 3/4 of them where addressed to Theo, his smaller brother, who was also considered one of his best friends. Many letters he wrote to his sister Wilhelmina are also kept. But there are only about 40 letter kept written by Theo Van Gogh and addressed to Vincent.

HE COINCIDED WITH THE WOMAN THAT HAS LIVED THE LONGEST IN THE WORLDThe woman who lived the longest in the world was Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1876 and died in 1997, when she was 122 years old. In 1888, when she lived in Arles at the age of12 or 13, Van Gogh also lived in the same city, and more than once he bought some inks in a shopthat belonged to Calment’s on le, as we can find in an article written in The Huffington Post. Jeanne‘a opinion about the artist wasn’t very positive. She described him as “dirty, badly dressed and unpleasant”, and she also added he looked “ugly, non-attractive, rude and ill. I forgive him, people said he was crazy”.

MISSIONARY BEFORE PAINTERVan Gogh was also a religious man, specially during the 70’s decade. He spent a period of two years in England, since March 1876, in which he liked to read the Bible and a book named ‘La imitación de Cristo‘ written by Tomás de Kempis. In Isleworth he worked as a helper of a Methodist preacher and in May 1877 he travelled to Amsterdam, where he wished to become a theologist. He had to forget the idea and in 1879 he was sent as a missionary to Borinage, in the Mons region in Belgium. He slept in a small cottage and shared all he had among the poor people. He said he had to believe in God to overcome so many unfortunes. His superiors sent him near Cuesmes, where he remained one year in absolute poverty with some miners. Here was when he decided to dedicate himself to painting.

HE ENVIED JAPANESE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR ARTVan Gogh admired Japanese art; he even did some artworks which he named ‘Japonaiserie’. In one occasion he said: "l envy Japanese people for the incredible clarity that is perceived in all their artworks. They are never boring or seem to be carried out in a rush... their style is as simple as breathing".

WHO KILLED VAN GOGH? Although it was thought for many years that Van Gogh shot himself, in 2011 the biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, winners of a Pulitzer award, launched a theory suggesting he was killed by a teenager in their book ‘Van Gogh, his life’.

THE STARRY NIGHT... SEEN FROM THE WINDOW OF THE MENTAL HOSPITALTHE ‘Starry night’ is considered one of his masterpieces. This painting of a bluish night represents what Vincent could observe from his window when he was hospitalized. the psychiatric problems he suffered in his last years of life made him enter voluntarily in these hospitals. This one was painted in the hospital Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It was painted about 1899, about 13 months before the author committed suicide.Van Gogh wan’t pleased with this work. In some of the letters he wrote to his smaller brother Theo (we only have over 659 left) the author considered it was a failure, it didn’t seem to tell him anything and He thought it wan’t even ‘a bit good’. He sent packages with artworks to his brother Theo who tried to sell his paintings, unsuccessfully, but he didn’t dare to include this one. If only they had known that 126 years later it would be part of the permanent exhibition in the Modern Art Museum of New York since 1941...