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Leonardo Da Vinci: artist, thinker and revolutionary – Part Three

The artist’s task is not merely to mirror reality in an unthinking way but to impart a special meaning and feeling to what is being depicted: “The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason,” wrote Leonardo, “is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”

Leonardo da Vinci: Man of the Renaissance – Part Two

The true genius of Leonardo has only really begun to be understood in our own times. Yet surprisingly little is known about his life and person. But in the beginning he was severely disadvantaged.The known facts about his life are simply stated. Born in 1452 in the little Tuscan town of Vinci in the hills above the Arno, Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a lawyer. He never knew who his mother was, though she nursed him as a baby.

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[Video] Guernica, Picasso, art and revolution

Today, on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica, we republish a video of a speech by Alan Woods, of the International Marxist Tendency. The speech was made  to University of Arts' London students at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, where a replica of Picasso's great painting of the massacre at Guernica was on display.

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Leonardo da Vinci: Man of the Renaissance – Part One

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” (Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519)

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Georg Lukács, the ‘Dialectics of Nature’ and the ‘free creation of history