Mapping the Human Experience
Anatomy & Art: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Renaissance prompted first intensive studies into
human anatomy to improve depictions of
humans
• Leo! http://www.leonardo-da-vincibiography.com/
• Treatise on Anatomy began in 1489
• Attempted to show life cycle of humans
• http://www.italian-renaissanceart.com/leonardo-drawings.html
Anatomy
Diagram of human skeleton
http://hes.ucfsd.org/gclaypo/skelweb/skel04.h
tml
Exercise
• Draw skeleton in sections using pencil. Make
sure you incorporate value, proportion, and
mark making.
musculature
• http://middle.usm.k12.wi.us/faculty/Jacobs2/
muscles/muscletitle%20page.htm
• http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactiveeducational-movies/free-onlinemovies.php?movie=Skeletomuscular
Exercise
• Partner up with someone in class. One
partner will hold arm & hand in one position.
Other partner will draw arm & hand position
using the musculature structure. Show areas
of connection between bones and muscles.
Be sure to think about how the muscle
contracts or flexes when bent.
Mapping the human experience
http://www.ncgenweb.us/currituck/maps/post1770map.html
Types of Maps: what we use maps to
chart? In small groups, come up with s
working definition of “Map” & as
many types of maps as possible. For
example: city street map
Map: a representation of the globe or parts of the globe that
addresses interactions/connections of things in relation to
size, distance, location & direction
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Movement
Populations
Cultural similarities
Geography
Biological anatomy
Climate
Economic/Resource Maps
Typographical features
Political
Land features
Remember Leo?
• http://www.leonardo-da-vincibiography.com/leonardo-da-vinci-maps.html
Historical Maps
• Prehistoric caves sometimes contained maps
of agricultural areas
Mappamundi
• Midievel European map of the world
• Mappa= latin for map or chart
• Mundi=latin for world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mappa_mundi
Hereford Mappa Mundi
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_Mappa
_Mundi
The center of the Hereford Map, showing
Asia Minor and Syria/Palestine and the east
mediterranean coast (compare the
contents on Chart 4). The succession of
towns on the coast of Asia Minor (§342a/b345,348-55) follows very closley their
sequence in the Exposito mappe mundi.
The large city at the top edge is Baylon (its
description is the map's longest legend
[§181). At the right edge, a looping line
shows the route of the wandering Islaelites
in their Exodus from Egypt; it crosses the
Jordan to the left of a naked woman who
looks over her shoulder at the sinking cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea
(she is Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt
[§254]. The circle one-third of the way from
the bottom is Jerusalem, the Map's central
point, with a crucifixion scene above it
([§387-89]).
Mappamundi
http://www.sochistdisc.org/2002_articles/westrem.htm
Sectional
divisions of the
earth employed
on Chart 2 (and
in Westrem, The
Hereford Map.)
http://www.sochistdisc.org/2002_articles/westrem/westremfig02.JPG
movement
• http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journe
y/
Maps as art
http://thefunambulistdotnet.files.wordpress.c
om/2011/04/sohei-nishino-london-01.jpg
• http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/06/fromthe-library-of-dr-london/
Video lecture
• http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-withpeter-hall-2/
Problem to solve
• How can you create a self portrait that
displays skeletal, muscular and surface
characteristics using maps that are expressive
of you?
planning
• What type of map are you going to use and
WHY? What does it express about you?
• List 3 reasons for map choice:
• What areas are going to be skeletal?
Muscular? And skin? WHY!
• What is your environment going to be?
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Copyright!!!!
US
In the US, maps which are produced by the federal government are automatically
public domain
In the US, maps which were published prior to 1923 are in the public domain
In the US, maps which were not published prior to 2003 have copyright expire 70
years after the end of the calendar year in which the author died
In the US the copyright term for maps published between 1923 and 1964 is
complicated: whether or not they are in the public domain depends on whether
the copyright was renewed
In the US, maps published between 1965 and 1978 have a copyright term of 95
years
In the US, maps published after 1978 which were produced as work-for-hire (most
commerical mapping), copyright expires 95 years after then end of the calendar
year in which the map was produced
In the US, maps published after 1978 which were not works for hire, copyright
expires 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the last living author
dies
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Out-ofcopyright_maps
Computer Lab
• Please type up your answers to planning
component, print and turn in to Rubino
• Look up maps that are not copyright protected
• Print examples
Requirements
• Planned areas of skeletal structure that coincides with
expression….Why is showing skeletal areas in that part
of your self portrait expressive of you?
• Planned areas of muscular structure that coincides
with expression…Why is showing musculature area in
that part of your self portrait expressive of you?
• Planned areas of surface….how is that expressive of
you? What does skin hide/protect? What
clothes/embellishments are expressive?
• Use of watercolor, colored pencil and pen/ink
• Use of Maps that are expressive of you! Collage or
drawn! Watch for copyright issues…nothing prior to
1923!
• Self portrait must be expressive of you and your
experiences!