Oct 5, 2009

Leonardo Da Vinci :D



· Classification:
1. Name of the work: “The Vitruvian Man”.
2. Name of the author: Leonardo Da Vinci.
3. Period: Around 1487.
4. Place where the work is at: Gallery of Venecia.
5. Technique: Pen and ink.
· Analysis:
1. Color: Secondary.
2. Paleta: Warm.
3. Application: Tinted.
4. Composition: Balanced.
5. Type of line: Pictorial.
6. Perspective: By geometric or linear perspective (vanishing point).
7. Lighting: Constant.
8. Theme: Human body.
9. Principals: Symmetrical balance.
· Specific characteristics of the work:
1. What is so special and unique about this work of art?
The history about the “vitruvian man” is really interesting. This picture was made to study the proportions of the human body, in that time all the attention was based in the male human body.

· Relevant events of the context:
1. What was the prevailing atmosphere of the period? What was the cause of it?
All the attention of all the scientifics and all the important people was based in the human body, the sculptures, paintings, EVERYTHING.
2. What were the predominant political, religious or artistic ideologies?
The predominant ideas in that time were the ideas of the humanism, the church loose power, and all the attention in the male human body.
· Reflection: Relationship between the context and the work:
1. Is this work of art reflecting the atmosphere of the period? In which way?
It shows the male human body.
2. Is this work of art reflecting the predominant ideologies of the period? In which way?
Yes, this work show a little bit of the ideas of the humanism; it shows the structure of the human body.
3. Is the impact of the scientific and technological advances reflected in this work of art? In which way?
No it isn’t.





· Personal reflection:
1. What are the aspects of the period that you identify yourself with? Why?
Well, I really love this painting, because it shows the beginning of the studies about the human body. About myself I guess I’m a little bit identified because I love when the people make me feel important, when the give me their attention, and with this image I can see that all the people were interested in the human body, besides that they were only based on the male human body. Another reason It’s because I always trying to be different to the other people, I don’t like when someone copy my style or things like that, and with this picture Leonardo keep he’s originality writing in mirror watching, with these I’m trying to say that he didn’t want to share he’s notes with another people, and sometimes I do that, I don’t share my ideas or my feelings, my secrets and things like that, and when I do it I try to be mysterious and I do it in a different way. So that’s why I choose this image.



















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