VITRUVIAN MAN
The color surrounding the entire image is to represent how I take in my surroundings: everyone's energies, thoughts, words, and actions. The first front figure on the drawing is to showcase that at a core I am bits and pieces of everyone that I love. The color dripping onto the dark figure shown behind represents how my surroundings drip into my soul. Serving as a constant reminder as to what I am surrounding myself with. This also depicts the recharging feeling of being with a loved one.
HISTORY
A drawing made by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490 - The Vitruvian Man - depicts the ideal human body proportions. The drawing illustrates a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. "The outstretched arms and legs of a man form a square and a circle: the square symbolizes the solid physical world and the circle the spiritual and eternal. Man bridges the gap between these two worlds." -Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Magical Proportions of Man".
The Vitruvian Man is a model for the wholeness and success every person is seeking in order to achieve balance, inner peace, happiness and enlightenment. The two conjoined figures, creating a person with four arms and four legs, represent the union of man with the Divine, the integration of body and soul, heart and mind, compassion with clarity, work with love, union of masculine and feminine. The Vitruvian Man is the universal symbol for love, relationships and health.
Image: Da Vinci, Leonardo. “Vitruvian Man.” Vitruvian Man , Wikipedia, 14 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man.
