Product Description
Think bigger. The Neoclassical Pop Art tribute recasts a Renaissance skull study as new Pop art with a message. A skull study by a painter who insisted every artist must be a good anatomist becomes a Pop poster with a dare.
“Free Your Mind: The Thinking Skull” as a poster is Neoclassical Pop Art's boldest tribute to “Anatomical Drawing of a Skull to the Left”, the skull study Leonardo da Vinci drew c. 1489, listed at Reynal & Hitchcock, New York. Pop colour turns scientific curiosity into a dare.
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.
Science, art and a little rebellion.
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.
This poster has a partly glossy, partly matte finish and it'll add a touch of sophistication to any room.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2019
- Dimensions : 24"x 36"
- Medium : Print on Paper
- 10 mil thick
- Slightly glossy
- Fingerprint resistant
