However, my thoughts would not be complete without reference to the high skills the renaissance masters possessed. I was particularly taken in with Rossetti's pastel technique in La Donna della Finestra: it reminded me of my own Tondi. Here is one of them.
I was at the Botticelli Exhibition in Berlin this week. The exhibition is put together very interestingly, highlighting our present day interest in our past. It was very interesting to see how important it is to us, to reinterpret ideas from our past. The idea of Venus, the Goddess of love, born from a very violent act: the severance of the male genitals. The implications of this act in the reinterpretation of violence against the female sex in today's world cannot unfortunately be denied.
However, my thoughts would not be complete without reference to the high skills the renaissance masters possessed. I was particularly taken in with Rossetti's pastel technique in La Donna della Finestra: it reminded me of my own Tondi. Here is one of them.
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Aruna SamiveluI am an artist. I live and work in Berlin. Archives
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