Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man
 
One of the earliest appropriations of the Vitruvian Man in art is William Blake’s 1795 “Glad Day.” In this striking picture, the Vitruvian Man is set free of its constraining circle and square, and is infused with new dynamism and joy. As stated in The Independent (13 Aug 2000), in this painting, “Blake takes this diagrammatic figure and converts it into a god of energy, makes its static pose a centrifugal fling.”


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