EarthUnderMartians's avatar
Don't be against tracing... It's how the Mona Lisa, and most of Andy Warhol's art was done.
tenchibaka's avatar
no it is not. andy worhol manipulated photos and the mona lisa was a hand-drawn painting of a woman that was heavily revised over several years


do you actually know what tracing is? it is when an image or photo is traced over from a source image or photo. neither of those examples are tracing
EarthUnderMartians's avatar
Actually, Andy Warhol took a photo of a soup can, put it through a projector, projected it onto the canvas and then traced over the image. I'm honestly not sure of how Da Vinci is, but the projector thing is one theory. 
tenchibaka's avatar
are you referring to his silkscreening? that was a replication of the already existing can series and was done AFTER he had gotten approval from campbells

davinci painted. he was a painter. he wrote on the camera as it related to the eye in the 1400s but did not use it to create any images. he hand drew all of his works
EarthUnderMartians's avatar
No, I'm referring to his soup cans, the ones where he took a photo and traced them.
ca.phaidon.com/agenda/art/arti…
And Leonardo Da Vinci, according to a relatively new theory, traced the projected face of a woman onto the canvas for the Mona Lisa. It's still hand drawn, but so is the majority of traced art.
thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/…
www.dogsonacid.com/threads/did…
tenchibaka's avatar
that article is quite bastardized >x>;;;; the timing is off, the way that he created the work is incorrect and the only traced photos he did of the tomato cans came long after the works shown in that image. those were created by silkscreens and stencils, here is the image he copied for that installment; upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…


your theory is unfounded and lacks any actual evidence. claiming that a large cultural shift in perceived beauty and socially desired works can be chalked down to several hundreds of thousands of people getting hold of a device that would be very costly and difficult to make and taking up tracing en mass but not having any written documentation of the use of this device or having physical evidence of the device in whole or part in said works or locations is ridiculous, it also discounts on face the world trends of the time both before, during and after the art renaissance as well as centuries of clear physical evidence showing the movement away from strongly stylized art to strongly realistic art

this is nonsensical and you have done nothing other than prove that you know nothing about the history of art or math or cameras
EarthUnderMartians's avatar
If they were traced from that pencil drawing, what's the difference? Even if he did the pencil drawing, he still then traced the next few.
And the theory isn't unfounded, it's possible, many artists have done it, and it was common at the time. Who's to say Da Vinci didn't do it? It doesn't discount his work, if anything it makes him even more credible as an innovator, with the patience to set all of that shit up and meticulously paint the things he projected.