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Keywords
Art installations
Art works
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Cold
Copper
Day
Global warming
Ice
KWCI (GPI)
Melting
Outdoors
Permafrost melt
Small group of people
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man on Arctic Sea Ice
Crew members from the Arctic Sunrise working on the face of The Melting Vitruvian Man. They cut and tear copper strips to make the mouth and eyes, so they will be visible from the air. Greenpeace commissioned the work to highlight the need for world leaders to recognise that the melting of the Arctic as an urgent wake up call for action on climate change.
Unique identifier:
GP02HP5
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
28/08/2011
Locations:
Arctic
,
Arctic Ocean
,
Fram Strait
,
Norway
Credit line:
© Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Shoot:
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man on Arctic Sea Ice
Artist John Quigley, with the help of the crew of the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise, recreates Leonardo da Vinci's sketch Vitruvian Man, from copper on the Arctic sea ice. John Quigley QUOTE: "We came here and created the 'Melting Vitruvian Man', da Vinci's famous sketch of the human body, because literally climate change is eating into the body of our civilisation. When he did this sketch it was the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the dawn of this innovative age that continues to this day, but our use of fossil fuels is threatening that."
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