Monday 25 October 2010

How does art mirror society?


I choose a paint tittled as "Vitruvian man" by da Vinci in 1487. Sometime people discried him as archetype of Renaissance man, a man who had billian of qestions and curiosity because of his questions and curiosity made a lot of inventions and made the Renaissance knowledgeble. Also he was one of the best artists of all period and perhaps the most intellegent person in the world. Thus "Vitruvian man" is one of his invention and paint. The painting, which is in pen and ink on paper, shows one male has two positions with his arms and legs apart simultaneously used in a circle and square. The drawing is based on the size of our human body with well discribed in geometry. This painting depicts that the church is loosing their power and got freedom from the church because in middle ages people couldn't came up with their own ideas because of the power of church and the Bibles, then people were keep inquiring to the church about science and knowledge, then the church couldn't answer it. Therefore people started not to believe in faith and had freedom. Thus da Vinci seems to came up with his own ideas and came up with new knowledge of human body in Renaissance time, so that depicts in the people of Renaissance time could made their own ideas and got freedom from the church.