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Kang Shishi

Montana art study abroad

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Sometimes, when you look at a painting, you can't delve into it, but you just feel beautiful, especially the works of art about love. In the end, it is easy to have a sense of moral collapse, that is to say, "it is difficult to be confused" is a good thing. If you know the story behind too many pictures, it's easy to get confused.

Today we are going to talk about tiziano Vicelli's painting Venus And Adonis.

There are two protagonists: Venus and adonis, an American teenager. The typical combination of Bai He is all about "beauty". When Marx talked about Greek mythology, he thought that the ancient Greek culture was "the same body of God and man", so it gave birth to the seeds of historical and philosophical concepts and was the soil of Greek art, which made me doubt the virtue and ethics of the Greeks.

Why? Because Venus and adonis is not about sweetness, but about the sadness and helplessness of fate! This story can be said to be a bit long:

One,

As we know, Venus (Greek name is "α φ ρ ο δ? τ η ",Aphrodite) has no clear birth record. There are two theories about her origin:

1, Zeus (zeta ε? , the Roman word is: Jupiter), the father of the man of God, the three kings of the gods, the ice god Dione (δ ι? Marriage gave birth to Venus.

2, Cronus (κ rho? νο? ), the second king of the gods, cut off the genitals of his father, the first king of the gods, Uranus, and threw them into the Aegean Sea. The genitals surged in the sea through tumbling bubbles and evolved into the beautiful god Venus.

Cronus, the second God King.

Uranus, the first god king

In any case, the birth of Venus is not unusual. According to a long poem by Florence poet Polizzi Arnold:

Venus was born from the bubble in the Aegean Sea. The son of the wind god Hippocrates, the wind god blew her to the quiet and desolate shore, while the spring god and the flower god Flora greeted her on the shore in a brocade dress made of stars, with endless blue sea and blue sky behind them. Venus stood gloomily on the shell symbolizing the source of her birth, looking delicate and powerless, showing no enthusiasm and disdain for the West Wind God who greeted her and the world. Because Venus was an adult when she was born, she was perfect when she was born, not a baby, and she didn't go through an unattractive process.

Perfect! All right! Perfection is pride! Venus was taken to the Olympic Mountain by Zeus, and all the goddesses were jealous of her perfection! All men covet her beauty, including Hera, Zeus' only legal wife. Of course, Venus is not a goddess that can be stretched! His behavior is a bit feminine. He creatively chose hephaestus, the God of Forging. This smelting god is not a peerless beauty among the Olympians. On the contrary, as the biological son of Zeus and Hera, he was "ugly and lame" in the words of China ancients, and was given by his parents to other gods for foster care. When he grew up, he returned to the Heavenly Palace with forging skills and began to work for the blue-collar class.

So why did Venus choose Hiphedes? The reason for this goddess is quite feminine: derailment is convenient! Sipides has repeatedly caught Mars, the lover of the goddess, at the scene of Venus' derailment, but he has always "cherished while walking"!

Zhang Ailing said, "Because I know, I am merciful", so I can tolerate Hu Lancheng's promiscuity and infidelity, as well as for Hephaistis. "Because I like the goddess, I have to tolerate her becoming a female nerve!"

Second,

I won't go into details about the romantic history of Venus here, because I will specifically talk about oil paintings on this subject. By the way, Venus, the goddess, has become rich and expensive since she married the melancholy Prince Sipides. Idle, you will have a wonderful hobby after all the goddesses marry the "rich second generation+official second generation": vagrancy. This time, I visited the Kingdom of Cyprus.

The name of this king is Pygmalion, because it is "Yan value control", and all secular women are out of his sight. This gentleman is good at carving, using ivory materials and carving beautiful women's statues day and night. The beauty of this statue is so perfect that her creator himself fell in love with it. King Pygmalion caressed her, dressed her like his wife, and gave her a beautiful name: Galatia. Of course, this is definitely not the naming method of fetishism, but the naming method of love.

Venus was moved by this persistent love, which will give this ivory woman life. King Pygmalion and the ivory woman he created finally became a couple. This story seems to end here, because, like everything in the world: after perfection, it is a truly clean and white land!

The story began to turn:

King Pygmalion and his ivory wife Galatia gave birth to a lovely son, Sinilas, who later succeeded to the throne of Cyprus. Caniras and his wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Mera. Mila is so beautiful that she is jealous of Venus. So Venus made a super feminine gesture. She used a spell to get Mila and her father Cornelius pregnant by incest.

When the magic of the spell disappeared, both Milla and cornelius regretted it. Caneras even tried to kill children born of incest with swords.

As a result, what is the result? Venus regretted it because of her jealousy and absurdity. She turned Milla into a myrrh tree. When the lush tree matured, it split and a beautiful boy was born inside. The protagonist of our painting: adonis. After adonis was born, Venus held him in her arms, probably out of some kind of shame. She entrusted adonis to Persephone, the queen of hell.

Adonis probably had the embryonic form of a handsome boy since he was a child. When Venus returned to Olympus, she thought of the baby with unbearable feelings. So he asked Persephone, the queen of hell, to let the children be raised by himself. However, for the sake of this super beautiful female nerve, Persephone refused this request without hesitation. Venus certainly won't stop there. This is the characteristic of quite a few goddesses. I mean, even those beautiful goddesses who are now called goddesses have this characteristic, that is, they never consider the consequences of their actions, but think that everything in the world is what they want, and what they want is what they get. As a result, the lawsuit between the goddess of beauty and the goddess of hell reached Zeus. Probably Zeus failed to seduce Venus, so he decided that adonis was raised by two goddesses. In the severe winter, adonis needs to live in the underground world with Persephone, and in the spring, he can return to the earth to live with Venus.

Persephone, the queen of hell

Third,

Handsome adonis has grown up!

Looking at the mature and attractive body of the young man. Venus once again flooded Chun Qing, and although her husband Hephaistis was jealous of Venus' affair with her lover Mars, she tolerated it. But Mars, as a lover, can't tolerate Venus ogling handsome adonis. In addition, adonis is no longer Ding Bai, but is named by Zeus as the god responsible for the annual autumn plant withering to spring recovery. He is also a god of status. Although his rank is not high, he is also a god.

So, what about adonis's attitude towards Venus?

There are two versions:

1. Because her mother gave birth to herself through incest with her father and grandfather, adonis is full of rejection attitude towards love and sensuality. So he was indifferent to the entanglement and beating of Venus, so that Venus, the god of love, could do nothing about his feelings.

Venus found that adonis was indifferent to temptation. Decided to use the killer of soft grinding and hard foaming. She left the Olympic Mountain and went to the wandering forest in adonis, becoming Huntress. She accompanied adonis to swim in valleys and forest rivers all day, and finally succeeded.

However, no matter which version, adonis's life ending is not happy. As I said just now, Venus' husband is not jealous, but Venus' lover Mars is. In a hunting in adonis, Mars turned into a fierce wild boar and killed the beautiful boy with his fangs.

As a result, Venus, the initiator of all this, didn't get what he liked in the end. She can only wail at adonis's bones and spill wine on adonis's flowing blood, so that those blood will become peony in full bloom in autumn.

Fourth,

Titian, why did this Venetian create this work? As the father of oil painting, what is the context in which he created this work?

First of all, we need to know what kind of city Venice was in15-16th century, and what kind of living conditions it had:

/kloc-Venice in the 0/5th century was the * * * Republic of the urban oligarchy system and the largest commercial center along the Mediterranean coast. The whole city is full of prosperous secular atmosphere. Economic prosperity has brought comfortable and luxurious life, and the whole city is filled with hedonism. Venetian painter Willoni once described the fun of drinking and feasting with vivid brushstrokes. Even his depiction of religious themes is based on the real living conditions of the rich in Venice, because it reflects the daily life of Venice's senses and luxury too truly, and shows this life in paintings with religious themes too casually, and Paul Willoni was almost arrested by the inquisition:

It can be said that Venice in this period, even the air, is full of hormones and gold coins. The description of lust is not the re-creation of art, nor is it ridicule, but the daily life of Venetians.

Secondly, we need to know what kind of life experience Titian has and whether he is as picturesque as he is:

Titian was a good baby when she was very young. But after the life enlightenment of the master artist giorgione and the influence of the Venetian lifestyle, he finally has this quality:

1, greedy for money: greedy for money has no principle. Charles V has been plotting to attack Venice, but as long as he paid Titian, he immediately drew a heroic portrait of Charlie, the enemy of the motherland. When the king of Spain bought his painting and paid a little late, Titian immediately wrote to urge him. Titian not only likes to make money from powerful people, but also wants to buy his works as long as civilians want to. If the quantity fails to meet the expectation, the quality will be sloppy. In short, the amount of money is directly proportional to the quality of the painting, and there is absolutely no discount. According to the memoirs written by his doctor, when Titian was dying, if his fingers touched gold coins, he would immediately clear his head.

2. Cheap: Titian, as a rare super-rich painter, has been nourished by various supplements. But even when he was dying, he still didn't want to spend money to buy himself a cemetery. It is to plan how to exchange a work for an excellent Feng Shui treasure cave in the most cost-effective way.

3, lewd: Titian likes to use the body of young women to conceive her own creation, so there must always be a little loli in the studio. He also likes to compete with his old friends and tell dirty jokes to see who tells them more vividly. Go to places that are not suitable for children during the day and see who is exhausted after a day of competition. As a result, all Titian's friends died, and he lived to be in his nineties.

Titian's life can be summed up in three sentences: work hard, make money and have fun. Behind his famous paintings, many of them contain various legends and romantic stories. Therefore, it is of course the best choice in history for Titian to show Venus!

Conclusion:

Is Venus a goddess or a female nerve? In my opinion, from the historical and cultural point of view, the Greek gods are not very reliable, but this is an image reflection of the real life of ancient Greece. It is hard for China people who have experienced traditional ethics to understand, but there are also "dirty Tang and smelly Han" in our history. Many things truly told in history are not more difficult than those said by ancient Greece, and this is the real human nature, which is embodied in myths and oil paintings and the real divinity. However, I privately think that no matter what goddess, she has a very unmarked experience, not a female nerve, it is difficult to be a goddess!

The above content is arranged according to the teaching content of "History of Western Art" by Professor Kang Shishi (this is of course his pseudonym) in the first year of college. Professor Yishui advocates "words don't mean everything". Although he graduated from the Painting Department of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts with a Ph.D. and studied western oil painting, he is a disciple of Wang Yangming and seldom writes. He always thought that "the article is eternal, and the gains and losses are well known", so when Kang Shishi suggested publishing his speeches and recordings, he authorized me to organize them according to the recordings, but I can also publish them under a pseudonym, but I can't use my real name. After all, Kang Shishi suggested it. His articles and works are all inherited from the "Ganjia School", and he thinks that all the people in the country can read them, which is a shame for academic depth. However, such a small article is just a little skill after asking questions, so you can listen to it casually and just entertain yourself.