Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese; 1475 ndash; Rome; 1564)Michel-Ange; comme Leacute;onard de Vinci; avait plusieurs cordes agrave; son arc et eacute;tait agrave; la fois sculpteur; architecte; peintre et poegrave;te. Il porta agrave; leur apotheacute;ose le mouvement musculaire et leffort; eacute;quivalents plastiques de la passion; agrave; ses yeux. Il faccedil;onna son dessin; le poussant jusquaux limites extrecirc;mes des possibiliteacute;s de son acirc;me tourmenteacute;e. Il ny a aucun paysage dans la peinture de Michel-Ange. Toutes les eacute;motions; toutes les passions; toutes les penseacute;es de lhumaniteacute; furent personnifieacute;es dans les corps nus des hommes et des femmes. Il ne les conccedil;ut presque jamais dans limmobiliteacute; ou le repos.Michel-Ange devint peintre pour exprimer agrave; travers un mateacute;riau plus malleacute;able ce qui animait sa nature titanesque; ce que son imagination de sculpteur voyait; mais que la sculpture lui refusait. Ainsi cet admirable sculpteur devint le reacute;ateur des deacute;corations les plus lyriques et les plus eacute;piques jamais vues dans lhistoire de la peinture : les fresques de la chapelle Sixtine au Vatican. La profusion des inventions disseacute;mineacute;es sur cette vaste surface est merveilleuse. Ce sont en tout 343 personnages principaux qui sont repreacute;senteacute;s avec une varieacute;teacute; dexpressions prodigieuse; plusieurs de taille colossale; agrave; cocirc;teacute; de figures plus secondaires introduites pour leur effet deacute;coratif. Le creacute;ateur de ce vaste plan navait que trente-quatre ans lorsquil sattela au projet.Michel-Ange nous oblige agrave; eacute;largir notre conception du beau. Pour les Grecs; le critegrave;re eacute;tait la beauteacute; physique; mais Michel-Ange; sauf dans quelques exceptions; comme sa peinture dAdam sur le plafond de la chapelle Sixtine; et ses sculptures de la Pietagrave;; ne precirc;tait que peu dattention agrave; la beauteacute;. Bien que maicirc;trisant parfaitement lanatomie et les lois de la composition; il osait les ignorer toutes deux; si neacute;cessaire; afin de suivre son ideacute;e : exageacute;rer les muscles de ses personnages; et mecirc;me les placer dans des positions inapproprieacute;es au corps humain. Dans son ultime fresque; celle du Jugement dernier sur le mur de lautel de la chapelle; il laissa se deacute;verser le torrent de son acirc;me. Queacute;taient les regrave;gles en comparaison dune souffrance inteacute;rieure qui devait seacute;pancher ? Cest agrave; juste titre que les Italiens de son temps parlaient de la terribilitagrave; de son style. Michel-Ange fut le premier agrave; donner agrave; la forme humaine la possibiliteacute; dexprimer toute une varieacute;teacute; deacute;motions psychiques. Dans ses mains; elle devint un instrument duquel il jouait; comme un musicien sur son orgue; en tirant des thegrave;mes et des harmonies dune diversiteacute; infinie. Ses personnages transportent notre imagination bien au-delagrave; de la signification personnelle des noms qui leur sont attacheacute;s.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Good; BeautifulBy Nir FriedmanThis is a book about underwater photography from one of the leaders in this area. I found this book clear; with a lot of amazing photos; and nice "case studies" on the behind the scenes of making some of these.I gave it only four stars; since I think that given the amount of underwater photography guides out there; a new book should decide whether it is aimed at novices; or at advanced shooters looking to hone their techniques. I felt that this book was undecisive on some. I felt it glossed on some points that are not obvious to novices; and as an advanced photographer; I learned from the book; but not as much as I expected.I usually recommend The Underwater Photographer as the goto book for learning underwater photography. As an advanced book; I felt that Winning Images with Any Underwater Camera: The essential guide to creating engaging photos taught me more.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great combination of beautiful photos and technical tips.By Jim RobbinsI am a recreational diver and an amateur photographer; I learned of this book on a dive trip and picked it up upon returning. The books main audience is those with better equipment and/or greater aspirations than I however I have still enjoyed and gotten a lot from it.The chapters start with choosing photography equipment and preparing for a dive trip; then cover topics all the way through editing and archiving. Each page has a photo or graphic illustrating the matter at hand and all photos have descriptive captions with info on the camera model; lens; and settings used. The text is easy to read while conveying a lot of information and tips. In the middle of the book is a Guest Photographers Gallery for five other professionals; and these too have detailed captions.Between each chapter is a case study with a gorgeous photograph and in-depth study covering the backstory; settings considerations; a diagram of positioning; and more.All in all a great book with beautiful photos coupled with many details and tips on how to achieve them yourself. This has improved my abilities with mid-grade land cameras and even my basic underwater point-and-shoots; while tempting me to upgrade gear to advance my hobby.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Top 5 Underwater BooksBy MacroMaloI brought this book on my flight to Spain from NY and I can honestly say that this was worth every cent. One of the many reasons why I love this book is the way the author communicates with you and explains his process. This is not just a gallery book; it is very informative giving the reader every detail of his shooting process. After reading this it completely changed the way I viewed under water photography. It is not easy or cheap to do but if you are patient youre able to capture a fascinating world. I also like the fact that the author included his photo along with an example of where he was positioned as well and the settings he used for each shot. He also includes a summery at the end of each chapter if you wanted to quickly understand the main details. This is a great book a lot of important information for people who are looking to get better knowledge about shooting subjects underwater.
