The birth of the canvas “The Birth of Venus” is due to Roman mythology and the talent of the author Adolf Bouguereau. Frenchman, artist, academician Bouguereau was a virtuoso performer of biblical fairy-tale subjects, with his own vision of characters and a manner of writing different from the rest of the painters of the late nineteenth century. His Venus, in spite of the modern interpretation, corresponds to all the canons of the ancient Greek standards of femininity and beauty. Emboding the goddess of love, desire and beauty in her own way is soft and white, Bouguereau endowed her with a bit of eroticism and sexuality.
To achieve the desired result, for example, transfer of carnal lust in a mixture with ecstasy and the inability to own a newborn Venus, the author placed the girl on Wednesday, stuffed with courageous characters and a couple of curious lovers. Accompanied by the birth of the goddess of a pack of angels in the form of naked boys, Adolf Bugero embellished the very same feeling that people call rapturous love and trembling. The composition of the work, the placement of the main character and landscape live in unison with the soft palette. In general, the whole picture is filled to capacity, but not overloaded with unnecessary details.
The layout of the canvas is so successful that even a “stuffed” center does not seem heavy, but, on the contrary, it shows an airy and easy history of the creation of an absolutely fragile Venus, soothes the silent immersion of mighty male bodies in the sea water. Bugero paid attention to the details, proclaiming the appearance of a miracle. So, the silent strokes “shout” with the unthinkable melody of the shells at the lips of the musicians, the rustle of the wings of the Cupid angels can be heard, and, perhaps, their song and whisper.
Work in the style of salon academism could be a perfect standard of this antique painting in the spirit of Raphael, but the warm palette belongs to a later period of painting. The love of the traditions of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries helped bring the “Birth of Venus” closer to the originals of the Renaissance masters with one caveat: the availability of airspace and perspective, the very one that the ancient artists did not succeed.
The manner of execution of “Birth” is recognizable and for certain is natural. The water does not seem artificial, the bodies live, the wind wears light flocks of cupids over the salty water surface. Real colors and haze of the distant plan give the picture the effect of presence and nature. The birth of Venus can be perceived as a historical fact of the past centuries thanks to the virtuoso Bugero Adolf.
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