Da Vinci: Codex of Shadows by Adele A. N. Art
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm
Year: 2023
Price: $800.00 USD
Status: available
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s hidden notebooks, this work imagines a forgotten page— a study not of machines, but of myth and memory. The forms emerge through layers of darkness, like thoughts trying to surface from deep within the subconscious. A tribute to invention, to mystery, and to the shadows where genius often hides.
Why collect this work?
A sharply defined eye steadies a crowded image of overlapping profiles, loops and feather-like strokes, making recognition depend on fragmentation rather than clarity.
- The artist profile situates Adele A. N. Art’s practice around identity, memory and symbolic figuration. That framework supports reading the divided face as an unresolved image of recollection, rather than a conventional portrait.
- In the supplied photograph, broad yellow contours press inward from the upper left, while layered red forms cluster around the eye. Black interruptions and white sweeps repeatedly break the figure’s outline, collapsing distinctions between face and surrounding field.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the medium accommodates saturated passages, opaque dark shapes and abrupt overlaps. These contrasts make concealment part of the composition, although the photograph cannot confirm exact colour, texture or physical condition.
- The catalogue description connects the 2023 painting to Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Encountered through that premise, the work replaces orderly anatomical study with visual excess, testing how observation and invention can obscure as much as they disclose.
About the Artist
Adele A. N. Art
Adele A. N. Art is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Nationality: Saudi
Symbolic figurative paintings exploring memory, silence, and feminine inner power
