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Michelangelo - Lie Down Painting from Discovering Great Artists
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) - Italian painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, was the greatest Renaissance artist of all time. His greatest love was the study of the human body, both in painting and in sculpture. He concentrated on observing the human body and was often allowed into hospitals to study bodies of those who had died. Some say that had Michelangelo been left to himself to sculpt instead of paint, he would have become a sculptor because no other form of art so beautifully expressed the richness of the human body. One of Michelangelo's best known and loved works is his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted the ceiling entirely while lying on his back. To do this, he had to build a tall, strong scaffold with wooden planks (like a big ladder with a floor to stand on) so that he could climb the scaffold and be close enough to the ceiling to paint it. He assembled his paints and brushes, and lay down on his back to paint, which took four years to complete the entire ceiling! Young artists experience the challenge of painting like Michelangelo by taping a large sheet of paper to the underside of a table and lying down to paint a scene. Materials:
Process: 1. Tape a large sheet of butcher paper or poster paper to the underside of a table, such as a child's school table or a household coffee table. The artist should be able to lie on his or her back under the table and comfortably reach the paper taped to the table with a paintbrush.
copyright © 2005 MaryAnn Kohl
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