Venus And Adonis

Nude figures have been featured in art works since around 30 to 25,000 B.C. And throughout the history of art, we can see a lot of artists being inspired and influenced by great talents before them, in one way or another they would carry the style or ideas of those previous artists into their own art and create new masterpieces. One particular example is Édouard Manet’s Olympia from the Realism period, and Yasumasa Morimura’s Futago. The two paintings share great similarities in their composition, but the content and purpose of the paintings, and style wise the two pieces are very different.

“People can take what they like out of the work”-Saville (YouTube, 2017). The female nude is one of the most prominent themes in the history of art and has been subject for many masterpieces such as botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur I’herbe. Saville's treatment of the female nude is undeniably like no other from the centuries before her.

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the visual analysis of the artwork. This paper examines an Egyptian half nude portrait art which is taken from Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fig.1). The statue characterized both male and female seated figure with a Braid hair. In this essay, I will present a complete visual description of this artwork (its preservation, costume and iconography), and then I will compare it to another artwork which is chosen from Textbook that is Akhenaten and his Family (Fig. 2).

The main focus of the painting intended by Titian is a nude woman, Venus, looking straightforwardly at the audience. The young woman’s nipples are erect; with her left hand covers her pubic area, the sexuality of this painting is unquestionable. She is completely naked except for the ring on her little finger and the bracelet around her wrist. It is clear that the intention of this painting is to evoke sensual feelings in its audience.

Reclining nude female is a common subject matter in art history since the Venetian Renaissance, Titian’s Venus of Urbino painted in 1538 is one of the earliest reclining nude female in painting history. It described a beautiful young female laying on her bed with her sleeping dog, on the back ground is her maids looking for cloth or her in the cassone. Manet’s Olympia that painted in 1865 is a painting with a similar composition, A nude young female who was suggested a prostitute, behind her is her black female maid holding a big bouquet of flower which is possibly from her customer. On the same part of the composition, there is an animal as well, but this time it is a cat. Titian and Manet’s reclining nude female have a same composition and subject matter, however They are very different in art history, both stylistically and culturally.

The reading claims that nudes throughout artistic history have been an important source of beauty and controversy. Nudes began to spike during the Baroque period as they were used for the more expressive and emotional arts of the time. In the nineteenth century, nudes became more common, yet became more sensitive. Artists would train by drawing nudes of ancient Greek statues and figures from myth. However, many artists would then move on to create works depicting prostitutes or peasant naked women. This would not please patrons as they were extremely societally taboo. However, this did not start artists from making them, as they moved into the twentieth and twenty-first century. This shows the importance of artistic nudes and their impact

Michelangelo has a humanist upbringing that influenced his work. He wants to portray how humans have potential rather than they are sinful. That is why he portrays God and angels with human forms. There is no shame in nude sculpture

As a common source of inspiration, the theology of these three David’s will contribute to the clarification on how nudity can represent immeasurable momentous styles in Italian Renaissance sculpturing. Moreover, this period; where sculptures were the most prominent art form would trigger the meaning of art interpretation, purpose and motif, thereby surfacing a new understanding of art. Nudity during the Renaissance era in Florence was a period of transition in which spectators become educated and accustomed to a society driven by tradition, into a society that approximated a new ideal known as the rise of realism, naturalism and humanism through three different statues of David that revealed three different views on man’s interaction with god. Nudity played a significant role in the way in which all three different artistries were uncovered as each transitioned into a more concentrated or revolutionary movement that was being portrayed during that

Principle of design is shown through the artist 's use of various elements in his work of art. In this painting balance, proportion, emphasis, variety, and unity are all exemplified. The balance is not to even but leans more to the left. I believe it leans more to the left because there is more going on in that area than on the right side. Proportion and emphasis is greatly shown through the goddess Venus and her hunter Adonis because they stand out the most. Through the use of the brush, Titian represents them as three dimensional.

Twenty eight years after Giorgione’s death, as a close friend to him, Titian created another version of the reclining female nude, which is also one of the most famous female nude in art history - the Venus of Urbino in 1538. It was an oil painting on canvas, and now located at Uffizi gallery in Florence.

By looking back at historical depictions of women in similar compositions, but putting her in a contemporary setting and contemporary role of prostitute flips the script for contemporary historical painting. This painting asks the question as to why this nude woman was met with such distaste when there were many other nudes in the Salon labelled as genre

The nude female body in Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” is used for eroticism and sensuality, as the female is posing in a seductive way. This painting and others like it, were typically for people of higher status, who used these paintings for their own “private enjoyment” (211). The sensuality was also portrayed by the use of types of paint colors that help the painting stand out. For example, the

For example, a strong importance is placed on sculptures because they usually portray a historical event. Coins, which contained the interpretations of art, are not seen as art because of its portrayal. Art represents the physical aspects of a culture. The role of art is used to portray Greek art in the natural state. Art has provided a strong connection to its culture. An artistic attribute captured people nude. These nude sculptures show such confidence and beauty. It questions the humanistic morals of people. Controversies have risen because of the belief of modesty. When analyzing the works of Greek art, the mind must be open to the context of the artwork. According to Temptis: Greek Sculpture, “the power to appeal to all classes of men is given but few artist, for it requires not only great skill but also sympathetic knowledge of human nature” (Von Mach 8).

In many works of art throughout history, female breasts have been featured prominently and in the nude. The symbolic meaning credited to the breast was usually associated with fertility and nourishment, both spiritual and physical, and in the wider sense, with life. Eroticism, nourishment, abundance, expression, feminine power, as well as feminine subservience, are different contradicting themes of the breast played out in time.

This painting exemplifies many of the characteristics of Caravaggio’s paintings, which is typical in the Baroque period.