Michelangelo's Study Of A Man

Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the top three Italian artists. His work are examples of how great the art was in the High Renaissance Era. Michelangelo’s chalk drawing, Study of a Man, was his analysis of the way he saw the body and the way it was shaped and saw the different positions. By using critical thinking as he created his art, he had the ability to study the way a man looks. He was able to process how the way the body moves and sits. The Critical Thinking Community defines critical thinking as, “the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication,

He was attracted to the physical and emotional traits of them. Some people believe it is almost impossible to understand how Michelangelo worked and what was his purpose. Michelangelo-gallery.org states that he saw art as “originating from inner inspiration and from culture.” You can tell that he wanted to keep challenging himself with his art. You can see that he sketched out different views and angles of the arms, legs and torsos. He wanted to get every last detail. This is clearly shown when he did the sculpture of David, you could see his veins popping out of his skin. In the sketch of Study of a Man, he captured all of the muscles in intricate detail. One of the ways he challenged himself was by utilizing multiple positions that created a higher degree of difficulty. In this instance the man is leaning his elbow on his knee and has his ankles crossed. He wanted to capture the movement of man in different

During the process of making the mural of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo used chalk to do his sketches. The first half of his sketches were done in black chalk. He also had his characters more tangled together with the background. Then in the second half, he changed his style. He changed the chalk color to red and he began to draw figures much larger. This is also when he started to draw his characters more independently and made them noticeably separate from the background. Michelangelo did try new materials; however his favorite was ultimately the black chalk, which he used for the last thirty years of his