Exhibition proposal

The art work proposal for this installation will be about the focus of the human body through art . The techniques of modern artists as well as contemporary , classical , and Renaissance will be used to mention a few The point of the exhibition is to allow the viewer to witness the changing forms of the human body as it is depicted through the changing lens of artistic movements . Artistic and historical memory is important because it allows the people to witness the change of the lens of society through artwork . It allows for a

collective memory to evolve from art in a public place thus the use of human bodies as seen through the different time periods of art which this exhibition will cover will give a chance to the viewer to discover how radically the visions of the body have come . Through the development of art , the fascination of the body has been a main motif . It is Venus , Roman Goddess of love who has intrigued the artist , and held their attention for well over a few centuries , as well as the hero in early Greek art and into this century Thus , heroine and hero (or the human body ) has been not only Venus , but also Aphrodite (the Greek Goddess of Love , she has been Mary , mother of Christ in Gothic tradition and she had been found in the countless faces of women depicted by Picasso , Monet , Degas , Warhol (for isn 't Monroe a goddess . The hero body has taken on the form of classical Greek statues , as well as the more arcane Munch painting to the development of sordid cubism in Picasso 's interpretation of a the human form . The link in these references is that this god and goddess are holding the fascination of artist

Earlier in the semester , there have been studies of females presenting viewers with their view of femininity . Here , however , there will be a close-up on females through the eyes of the other gender . With this premise , the art being focused on will cover the art periods of High Renaissance , Romanticism , Impressionism , Mannerism , Schiele 's unique style of art , and Modern art . These chose eras embody a progression of female as the centerpiece in art , and that centerpiece delineates through time into Pearlsteins vision of nudes . Venus , Aphrodite , Mary and the genre of today have in common the powerful feminine pulchritude which artists have found alluring and which still prevails for today 's audiences

Agnolo Bronzino , Allegory of Venus : 1546 , Oil on Wood , 146 x 116 cm

Bronzino pulls back a curtain of a painting to present two lovers . The canvas is crowded with images , people , and action . This is juxtaposed with the fact that as much as action as is happening in the scene , the bodies of the activists remain marble white and not pinkish . This deadness is intriguing considering that the subject of the piece is love . The playfulness of the painting reveals love as a foolish occupation , for in the upper...