Human Shape of the Holy Land
Chapter 3 - Man and Landscape in Art
While the Anatomy
science is committed to precision in describing the human body, the arts enjoy
great freedom in this field. The works of arts which combines human beings with
landscapes unites between the two. The landscape becomes a reflection of the
man and vice versa.
Classic
Architecture emphasized the 'human façade' of big buildings. It was done
using decoration of sculptures and ornaments. This combination created
Anthropomorphism of the urban landscape.
A building façade in a French town
Many of the
painting masters anthropomorphized the background landscape of their human
subjects. For example, the imaginary landscape behind the Mona-Lisa is considered
by a reflection of the lady's inner self.
Leonardo De Vinci – Mona-Lisa – 16th
century
The
impressionist painters emphasized the general impressions of the character and
the landscape on account of the accurate description. In this style it is much
easier to unite between the subject and the background and describe in
prominence the human essence, both physical and spiritual.
Monet – The Promenade – At the turn of the 19th
century
The painter
Salvador Dali described with his paintbrush surrealistic visions where the
human body decomposes in desert landscape and created an authentic integration
between Anatomy and Geography.
Dali – A premonition against a civil war -
1936
Modern New
Constructivism artists decomposed the views they painted into elementary visual
components. It makes it possible to describe the living and the inanimate by
the same molecular tools.
Werner Horvath – Michael Jackson - 1993
Post Modern
Architecture abandoned the pure geometric functional structures. Architects
like Frank Gehry returned to the integration of the human in buildings by
creating a structural disorder which is compatible with the human body
sensation.
Frank Gehry -