"The Birth of Venus" Series.
The performance done sept. 21 (Spring) by performer, photographer and artist Luizo Vega
from which I shot this pics and the model Diana Grober.
It has been portrayed and referenced by many artists, painters and writers, the former typically portraying not the actual birth, but the moment where, transported by a shell (a metaphor for the female vulva), Venus lands at Paphos in Cyprus.
This famous artwork hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. It is tempera on canvas, measuring 172.5 cm tall by 278.5 cm wide. It was painted around 1483, or even before.
The Concept:
This series of paintings is based on Sandro Botticelli´s "The Birth of Venus" masterpiece (around 1483).
I want to transmit not only a pop art version of this wonderful painting and the beauty of Venus, but that all women are Venus in some way.
The new, the spring, the blossom, the beauty and love in all its grace.
My Needs:
To be possible to portray you as the Venus, I would need good resoltution pics in which you pose like the model. You can use long hair or even cloth or thin wool simulating the long hair that must cover your pubis. The posture and expression of eyes, hands, and legs is very important but you are free to act the Venus as you feel it better.
If you dont want to show your breasts you can use a top or short t-shirt not too much strechted so I can see the form of your breast. I can draw and paint it then. You can use a pantie too because, as you can see in the painting, not too much is shown.
I expect you like the idea, find it nice and artistic, and that you can do it yourself playfully with your camera, or some friends help, even husbands, boyfriends or girlfriends (:
I also find fun reversioning a so classical masterpiece in my pop art style, having as models girls or woman I "know" through myspace and the internet.
If you do know someone who would be interested, I would be grateful you provide this webpage for her information.
Thanks and regards,
CRiS
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so we have a more direct contact.
Nice to meet you, thanks a lot if you reach HERE and have a nice day !
Cristian Barnes
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tel/Fax:
+54 (0) 11 - 4951-1873
Mobile : +54 9 (15) 6203-5938
Some more information that can be useful:
The painting the depicts the Goddess Venus emerging from the sea as a full grown woman, as described in Greek mythology.
This large picture by Botticelli may have been, like the "Allegory of Spring", painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco's Villa di Castello, around 1483, or even before. Some scholars suggest that the Venus painted for di Pierfrancesco and mentioned by Giorgio Vasari may have been a different, now lost, work than the painting in the Uffizi. Some experts believe it to be a celebration of the love of Giuliano di Piero de' Medici (who died in the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478) for Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who lived in Portovenere, a place by the sea. Whatever inspired the artist, there are clear similarities to Ovid's "Metamorphosis" and "Fasti", as well as to Poliziano's "Verses".
The classical Goddess Venus is emerging from the water on a shell, being blown towards shore up the Zephyrs, symbols of spiritual passions, and with one of the Ores, goddesses of the seasons, who is handing her a flowered cloak. According to some commentators, the naked goddess isn't then a symbol of earthly but of spiritual love, like an ancient marble statue (which might have inspired the eighteenth century sculptor, Antonio Canova, by its candor), slim and long-limbed, with harmonious features.
The effect, none the less, is distinctly pagan considering it was made at a time and place when most artworks still depicted Roman Catholic themes. It is somewhat surprising that this canvas escaped the flames of Savonarola's bonfires, where a number of Botticelli's other "pagan" influenced works perished.
The anatomy of Venus and various subsidiary details do not display the strict classical realism of Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. Most obviously, Venus has an improbably long neck, and her left shoulder slopes at an anatomically unlikely angle. Such details, whether artistic errors or artistic licence, do little to diminish the great beauty of the painting, and some have suggested it prefigures mannerism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus