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Submitted by sharpchef on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Creation Of Adam
Michelangelo's Creation of Adam is just a small part of a complex narrative of the book of Genesis that is painted on the Sistine Chapel. It is but one of nine scenes but I feel that it is the most powerful. The Creation of Adam exemplifies the new renaissance style of painting and representing man and glorifying his form. In the Renaissance the idealization of the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman ideas and forms of art where on a resurgence.
The older, pre-renaissance style was more wooden and two-dimensional. The Creation of Adam shows Adam in vital living movement as a youthful and full of vigor. Looking at Adam you see his youthful face as he lies on a field of green grass at the edge of a cliff, which separates Heaven from earth. In stark contrast to the intense face of the Lord with his symbols of wisdom the long flowing beard (age) and gray steaming hair as he is carried by angels though the heavens.
Adam can been seen reaching out to the Lord as he is created, I would interpreted this two ways, either God has just let him go as he separates from God and wants to touch one last time or is Adam reaching to God in supplication as he is left to fend for himself? Either way it seems a type of electric energy courses between the two as they separate. And the void that lies between them is growing.
The painting shows Adam with the perfect body that we will later see in the sculpture of Michelangelo's David. The Roman idea of idealizing the human form is reflected though out the Renaissance in many different works of art. The idea of the multiple Gods is transferred to having the one God that is highly stylized as a wise, older, strong presence that is in as perfect physical shape as the young Adam.
The theme that God created all is reflected in the painting and is used to teach the masses a lesson at a time when few could read and the Church was a large part of everyone's lives. Even members of the royalty where just...
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