Michelangelo Angelo Michael Angelo : Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, & poet of the European Renaissance.
... stone. They are then as great creative artists as Shakespeare or Michael Angelo? I should have thought that Shakespeare's power of the word and Michael Angelo's of translating his image into visible form is at least an indispensable part of the art of expression, creation or image-making. I cannot conceive of a Shakespeare or Michael Angelo without that power—the one would be a mute inglorious Shakespeare... concept-forming, activity. Man is an artist as soon as he imagines, and long before he reasons. The great artists understood the matter so. "One paints not with the hands but with the brain," said Michelangelo; and Leonardo wrote: "The minds of men of lofty genius are most active in invention when they are doing the least external work." Everybody knows the story told of da Vinci, that when he was painting... Shakespeare and the other a rather helpless and ineffective Angelo. P.S. This is of course a comment on the statement as presented—I would have to read Croce myself in order to form a conception of what is behind his philosophy of Aesthetics. 19 December 1936 Page 558 Russell's Introvert We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread ...
... Aurobindo Related Directly to Record of Yoga, c. 1910-1931 Record of Yoga Undated Notes, c. January 1927 Amrita— Moses, Brihaspati, Hermes, Michael Angelo, Rudra, Pythagoras. Bijoy Child Krishna, St Jean, Kartikeya, child Vishnu Barin Nefdi. Apollo-Aryaman St Hilaire— Ramakrishna—(The Four) Kshitish Narada—Bach-Isaie ...
... 8 Madhyama 13 Mahabharata 103, 104 Mamata 9 Manmohan Ghose, Prof. 92,102 Mantra 25 Manu 5 Marcellus 23, 24 Matthew Arnold 102 Medhatithi Kanwa 8 Michael Angelo 19 Milton 9, 16 Mitra 1, 4, 5, 31 Montevideo 55 Modern Review, the 93 Mount Kailas 17 Muse 61, 88 Page 104 N Naiad 32 ...
... Mahalakshmi, 44, 207, 209-10, 225 Mahasaraswati, 44, 207-10, 225 Mahashakti, 67, 198 Mahavira, 44, 207 Maheshwari, 44, 207, 209-10, 225 Manicheism, 127 Mary, 82 Matariswan, 44 Michael Angelo, 210 Middle Ages, the, 134, 139, 149, 421 Milton, 156n. – Paradise Lost, 156n Mimansakas,137 Mitra, 207 Morgan, 56-7 Mother, The, 63, 65-6, 270, 282-3n., 285n., 289n ...
... He found them there. But even there he tries to separate what he calls the pure aesthetic feeling from the other overtones of painting. He takes as an illustration the "Transfiguration” of Michael Angelo. He argues that aesthetically it is not necessary for any one to know Christian mythology in order to enjoy the picture. These are "overtones” Page 224 and have nothing to... The disposition of the mass, the composition, the design, the colour-scheme – these alone contribute to the pure aesthetic value of the picture. Sri Aurobindo : Does he mean to say that Michael Angelo painted it keeping in view the masses and the colour-scheme ? I thought aesthetics had something to do with beauty and beauty is not only formal. It is also beauty of the emotion, in fact, beauty ...
... 173-5 Margaret, 138 Marut, 22, 28-9 Marx, 126 Mayavada,278 Mazumdar, Dipak, 213 -"Baritone", 212 Mazzini, 253 Mephistopheles, 250 Metaphysicals, the, 57, 71,286 Michael Angelo, 170 Milton, 52-3, 85, 93, 125, 147, 163, 168,245 --Camus, 245n Page 373 -Paradise Lost, 163, 168n Minerva, 284 Mitra, 45, 157, 159-60, 180, 294 Modern ...
... the round, not simply in a frontal view. A Shakespearean scene is not only a feast for the eye but is apprehended as though through all the senses. However, we must not forget Michael Angelo in this connection. He is living, he is energetic, to a supreme degree. If we seek anywhere intense authentic life-movement, it is there at its maximum perhaps. Even his statues are a paean ...
... and figures in the round, not simply in a frontal view. A Shakespearean scene is not only a feast for the eye but is apprehended as though through all the' senses. However, we must not forget Michael Angelo in this connection. He is living, he is energetic, to a supreme degree. If we seek anywhere intense authentic life-movement, it is there at its maximum perhaps. Even his" statues are a paean of ...
... Shelley or our Tagore seem to be emanations of Beauty, Harmony, Love—Mahalakshmi. And the perfect artisanship of Mahasaraswati has found its especial embodiment in Horace and Racine and our Kalidasa. Michael Angelo in his fury of inspiration seems to have been impelled by Mahakali, while Mahalakshmi sheds her genial favour upon Raphael and Titian; and the meticulous care and the detailed surety in a Tintoretto ...
... made vibrant with life. And it may be said that even this is the law of a particular formula of creation – but Rabindranath has followed another law. We may take here an example. As a sculptor Michael Angelo had no parallel among the artists. One special trait of his carving was this that he hardly ever completed a figure to a final finish; he left it unfinished to a certain extent; the unfinished ...
... emanations of Beauty, Harmony, Love – Mahalakshmi. And the perfect artisanship Page 209 of Mahasaraswati has found its especial embodiment in Horace and Racine and our Kalidasa. Michael Angelo in his fury of inspirations seems to have been impelled by Mahakali, while Mahalakshmi sheds her genial favour upon Raphael and Titian; and the meticulous care and the detailed surety in a Tintoretto ...
... saying that he had written very well. PURANI: Coomaraswamy says the artist expresses his individuality in his art. SRI AUROBINDO: Individuality? Who has done that? Does he mention any name? Michelangelo? PURANI: No, he means the ego, perhaps. SRI AUROBINDO: The ego! That is different. But an artist doesn't express his individuality. I don't think Coomaraswamy is right there. A poet may do ...
... The feeling for life and character here is a very different thing from the splendid and abundant vitality and the power and force of character which we find in an Italian painting, a fresco from Michael Angelo's hand or a portrait by Titian or Tintoretto. The first primitive object of the art of painting is to illustrate life and Nature and at the lowest this becomes a more or less vigorous and original ...
... The Secret Splendour Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear. Is caught the Timeless Wonder tense and sheer. Eternity comes outvasting all their art, An intimate blindness breaking in the heart To sudden seizure of a shadowless sky, Deep blue unheard, huge wind shutting the eye. And yet the music and magnificence A rapture that ...
... artistic creation is born of a question, a conflict, a discord with oneself, mankind or the cosmos. What painter, what poet, what writer has not wrenched from this conflict the best of his art, from Michelangelo to Goya, from Van Gogh to Rodin, from Villon to Rimbaud, Baudelaire or Dostoevski? And the work of art—the painting, novel or poem—is a harmony torn from this disharmony, a conquest over some chaos ...
... The Adventure of the Apocalypse Art of arts Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear, Is caught the Timeless Wonder tense and sheer. Eternity comes outvasting all their art, An intimate blindness breaking in the heart To sudden seizure of a shadowless sky, Deep blue unheard, huge wind shutting the eye, And yet the music and ma ...
... to my amazement, I came to know from some Ashramites that Amrita had been in a previous life Michelangelo! When I went to Europe in 1952 I saw the magnificent work of Michelangelo. I was fascinated by his masterpieces both in sculpture and paintings. Let me quote from a sonnet by Michelangelo: "With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The ...
... paintings. You have done the work of 100 births in this one life. You are liberated. I replied to her: I appreciate your good will but it was all the Grace of the Divine. Here I recall Michelangelo's words: The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. I came to know that some people carried the book of Savitri (First University Edition 1954) with them to the ...
... Watteau, Turner, Reynolds, Auguste Renoir and so forth. I was totally enthralled by the grandeur of the Great Masters; I ran out of all adjectives and accurate exclamations of praise and surprise. Michelangelo's half-finished painting "Madonna and Child with St. John and Angels" was very expressive. But I was bored by the repeating themes: Virgin and Child, Madonna and Child, Crucifixion of Christ. Perhaps ...
... bring. As a matter of fact, many of these painters and sculptors were also scientists. Some took advantage of the discoveries in anatomy made at the time, but some others like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo themselves per formed dozens of dissections, studying each muscle, each nerve and sinew. They ceaselessly observed human bodies in motion and studied the way they walk, they sit, they bend, which ...
... Catacombs, those underground tunnels used in early Christian times for burials and religious services, which had to be kept secret because of persecution. St. Peter's, with its magnificent frescoes by Michelangelo, deeply impressed me. Indeed it was very intriguing to experience the reminders of so much past history. In Verona we were shown the tombs of Romeo and Juliet, in the old church of a former ...
... of a debauched eye and a perverted taste. Yet even in this alien sphere a Bengali has been winning noble renown, and that too in Italy, the native land of painting, the land of Raphael, Da Vinci and Angelo, and among Italians, with whom artistic taste is an instinct. In religion too, the Bengali has the future in his hands. He was the first to revolt against the shortcomings of Hinduism, and he is the ...
... crushed by that bomb. And all at once, he saw that bomb turn into a sort of golden sun, or golden ball, and out of all the Vatican's museums (which had been crushed—those places where there were Michelangelos and all those treasures), there came an army of rats! ( Mother laughs ) ...Rats and "malformed" beasts, he told me. Out of all those treasures of the Vatican, there only came rats all over ...
... Plotinus or Spinoza or Hegel, poetry superior to Homer's, Shakespeare's, Dante's or Valmiki's, music more superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture more utterly beautiful than the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon or Borobudur or St. Peter's or of the great Gothic cathedrals? The same may be said of the crafts of ancient Greece and Japan ...
... being put into question. The movement called “Renaissance” was much more complex than commonly realized. Nowadays it is superficially associated with the art of geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, and with humanist scholars like Erasmus of Rotterdam. The art of the Renaissance was of course a most important aspect of the new way of looking at the world. A certain form of art ...
... touched. Naturally, devils and angels were not very popular with the typical Renaissance thinkers. But the artists carried on the religious tradition and we have angels still in Raphael and Michelangelo though Michelangelo gave them a statuesque and sculptured quality and his God himself seems to be a very muscular man instead of a God: even his beard seems to be full of muscles the way it flies like a torn ...
... with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution poet Andre Chenier. As for Amrita himself, the forces in his past were Moses, Michelangelo and Victor Hugo, powerful personalities quite in contrast to his gentle, amiable present disposition. To help me in my historical researches I made sure from Amrita that the Egyptian princess ...
... and fire in Mary's quickened earth-womb. The representation of the theme by Crashaw has been compared to the chaste and lucid art of Raphael, that by Hopkins to the impassioned and complex art of Michelangelo. For our purposes the distinction would lie not only as between the chastely lucid and the passionately complex: it would lie also in the nearness of the Crashavian utterance to the prose temper ...
... from the greatness of Phidias through the soft self-indulgence of Praxiteles to its decline. A later Europe has failed for the most part in sculpture, in spite of some great work by individuals, an Angelo or a Rodin, because it played externally with stone and bronze, took them as a medium for the representation of life and could not find a sufficient basis of profound vision or spiritual motive. In ...
... with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution poet Andre Chenier. As for Amrita himself, the forces in his past were Moses, Michelangelo and Victor Hugo, powerful personalities quite in contrast to his gentle, amiable present disposition. To help me in my historical researches I made sure from Amrita that the Egyptian princess mentioned ...
... remarked, "I was present there." 11 The Statesman thought that Auroville might "well become the world's- first international city and provide a unique example in international living". Professor Angelo Morretta wrote in Giornale d'Italia that Auroville would serve to translate into reality the ideals of Sri Aurobindo, the Plato of modern India. A Sri Lanka paper, the Sun, described Auroville ...
... scribbling on paper, an insane hacking of stone and an effeminate daubing of canvas; Vauban, Pestalozzi, Dr. Parr, Vatel and Beau Brummell are then the true heroes of artistic creation and not Da Vinci, Angelo, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare or Rodin. Whether Mr. Archer's epithets and his accusations against Indian spirituality stand in the comparison, let the judicious determine. But meanwhile we see the ...
... inspires Piero's great frescoes at Arezzo" and "in the calm majestic tempo of the Farness Palace in Rome". "Raised to demonic intensity, it breathes a terrible life into the race of titans who people Michelangelo's paintings." "A man's least utterance or gesture, it was felt, should carry a Roman weight of grandeur - Sempre il magnanimo si magnifica in suo cuore! How much more then must epic poetry, 'the ...
... calm 191 Mystery before and Mystery behind, 233 Naked and hungry, abject, pale with fright, 420 Name after name I give to God: 325 Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear 268 Night has a core 21 Night has its wakefulness 650 Night's noon! Does mystery reveal a rent 304 No clamorous wing-waft knew ...
... constant fight, who was exposed continuously to dangers and to inclemencies, who was capable of as great an enthusiasm for the discoveries of Galileo as for the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, did not resemble modem man who lives in a steam-heated apartment, an air conditioned office, a closed car, who contemplates absurd films, listens to his radio, and plays golf and bridge. Each epoch ...
... Modern Review 157, 159 Mona Pinto 278-9 Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) 91, 131, 201, 211, 217, 496 Monica Parish 738 Monod-Herzen, Dr G. 282 Moonje, Dr B.S. 200 Moreau, Gustav 473 Morretta, Angelo 762 Morisset, Andre see Andre Morisset, Francoise see Pournaprema Morisset, Henri 28, 834 Morisset, Janine see Janine Moses 180, 482 THE MOTHER 1, 237, 420, 572 Categorised under ...
... saw the exhibition of Savitri paintings. You have done the work of 100 births in this one life. You are liberated. I replied that it was all the Grace of the Divine. Here I recall Michelangelo's words: The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. It is well known that the Mother was a fine artist who excelled in drawing and sketching as well as oil-painting ...
... greater part of her universal operation we must find another explanation than the teleological? or rather [one that] will at once contain and exceed the teleological? If it had only been Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Edison, Beethoven, Napoleon, Schopenhauer, the creators in poetry, art, science, music, life or thought, who possessed imagination, we might then have found an use for their unused imaginations ...
... and of a city, too, that will be in tune with the noblest ideals of India and the world". The Amrita Bazar Patrika said that Auroville was "going to be a laboratory of the evolving world city". Angelo Moretta wrote in Giornale d'ltalia that Auroville would "serve to translate into reality the teachings of the Plato of modern India, Aurobindo Ghosh". The Times of India described the simple ceremony ...
... like the amphibians or the mollusks. But in us, who reproduce the great cosmic Play, the force has not completely found its consciousness, or our nature its own spirit. Was Plato ever satisfied or Michelangelo ever at peace? "One night I took Beauty upon my knees, and I found her bitter!" exclaimed Rimbaud. This is a sign that the peak of mental intelligence or aesthetic refinement is not the end of the ...
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