Product Description
Above a desk where ideas get made. This is the first colourway of the Neoclassical Pop Art version, new art from a Renaissance skull study. The classic Free Your Mind colourway turns an anatomy study into a lesson for the whole room.
With “Free Your Mind: The Thinking Skull” in its first colourway, Neoclassical Pop Art reworks Leonardo da Vinci's “Anatomical Drawing of a Skull to the Left”, made c. 1489 (listed at Reynal & Hitchcock, New York), into a framed lesson for a desk wall.
Throughout his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body. He was a pioneer in this area of painting. In his notebooks, da Vinci told: “It is necessary for a painter to be a good anatomist, so that he may be able to design the figure parts of the human frame and know the anatomy of the sinews, nerves, bones, and muscles.”
In da Vinci's notebook dated 1489, there is a series of well-defined drawings of the skull. To show what lies beneath, da Vinci used a knife to cut bones. Da Vinci's anatomical work was hundreds of years ahead of its time. Peter Abrahams, professor of clinical anatomy at Warwick University in the UK, affirms Da Vinci's anatomical drawings are accurate as anything created by a contemporary scientific artist.
According to that Art Historian Vasari, “he was one of the first that began to illustrate the problems of medicine with the doctrine of Galen, and to throw true light on anatomy, which up to that time had been veiled in the thick and gross shadow of ignorance.”
The Neoclassical Pop Art artwork offers a bridge between da Vinci's pioneering vision and Andy Warhol's colorful contemporary Pop skull art.
A contemporary print, created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio. A collectible statement piece where the old masters meet pop culture, made for true art lovers.
Curiosity, framed.
Make a statement in any room with this framed poster printed on high quality paper, with a partly glossy, partly matte finish.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2019
- Dimensions : 18"x 24"
- Medium : Framed Print on Paper
- Alder, semi-hardwood frame
- Black color
- 75” thick
- Acrylite front protector
- Hanging hardware included
