The Vitruvian Ice Man
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man has been recreated by an artist in the Arctic to highlight melting ice. The enormous version of the Italian painter’s famous sketch was created by artist John Quigley who used copper pipes stretched out on the iceberg in the Arctic. Gradually over the coming years it is claimed that the recreation will melt into the sea, until barely anything is left.
Quigley, who travelled on a Greenpeace icebreaker to create the copper artwork in the Fram Strait, between Greenland and Norwegian Svalbard, said: ‘We created the Melting Vitruvian Man because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilization’.
The Vitruvian Man is one of da Vinci’s most famous drawings and was created in 1487. It has been reproduced in popular culture as t-shirts and posters. The ink drawing shows a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The art work is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions and geometry. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture.
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