Video: Vitruvian man against melting ice
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian Man is considered a reference image of the human body, in which everything is correctly and harmoniously arranged. But it just so happened that Man himself violates world harmony, negatively influencing many natural processes with his activity. For example, the melting of the Arctic ice. This is what an unusual drawing created by the artist informs about. John Quigley on one of the huge ice floes in the Arctic Ocean.
The artist John Quigley is already known to regular readers of the site. Kulturologia. Ru thanks to his unusual work-messages, which can only be seen by those who are above them in the sky. These messages, most often, have a certain ecological character. For example, "The Arctic is in danger", "Save the Tara Valley", "Save the whales", etc. So his new work has a similar message.
This work is a huge image of the Vitruvian Man, created on a huge ice floe, drifting 800 kilometers away from the North Pole of the Earth. Moreover, the human figure is not fully drawn. Part of it seemed to have already ceased to exist, melted (as it was originally intended). It is difficult to imagine something more clearly reflecting the influence of Man on the process of melting of the Arctic ice.
The artist John Quigley painted the Arctic Vitruvian Man together with activists of the Greenpeace organization, and he did it precisely on the order of these fighters for the preservation of planet Earth (Quingley generally works closely with Greenpeace).
The drawing of the Vitruvian Man was made on a huge ice floe using copper oxide taken by Greenpeace activists from recycling centers. Copper was used for several reasons at once. The first is its complete safety for the natural ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean. The second is the traditional use of copper in solar panels. So this unusual arctic work by John Quingley has many meanings!
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