Giorgio Vasari’s Fine Arts From the Vite of 1550:The Splendor of Creativity and Design

• 作者: Liana De Girolami Cheney
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究：英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: beauty CREATIVITY drawing imitation INVENTION Fine Arts GIORGIO Vasari Marsilio Ficino NEOPLATONISM RENAISSANCE and Italian Mannerism
• 年，卷（期）: wxyysyjywb,（2）
• 页码范围: 140-178
• 页数: 39页
• 分类号: G632.474

摘要

Giorgio Vasari’s conception of artistic creativity is related to his theory of painting. He proposes two alternatives in a painter’s development or achievement of artistic creativity: imitation (imitazione) and invention (invenzione).Imitation is the copying of art as a method of learning, whereas invention is independent of imitation and constitutes the means for conceiving artistic ideas. Imitation serves to guide and teach the artist in composing and creating perfection. Vasari maintains that artists must study antiquity and the masters, so that they may learn how others acquired the experience of imitating nature. For Vasari, imitation draws upon three different sources: the first two are copying from nature (copia dal vero) and the third one is selecting from one’s work (imitare se stessi). He emphasizes that copying from nature is important for the artist so that he may learn to create forms that are alive as visualized in the Fine Arts.