There is no single definition of art. Art reflects a person's innermost thoughts and feelings which can be reflected through painting or drawing, in a book, or even a movie. Coming from a small town of CastelFranco Veneto just 40 kilometers inland from Venice Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, his name sometimes appears as Zorzo. Giorgione, who had the passion "for painting, for music and for love" - as the chronicle affirms - was the artist preferred by a cultured and elegant society that loved beauty: the music of Giorgione's lute, his singing and surrounded itself with his pictures. Giorgione sees nature through his feelings and emotions, and every element of it, man himself, is just a detail, a detail of a whole. He painted, without a previous sketch; he subordinated everything to color, freeing it from the dependence of form, and that's exactly what he accomplished in these three paintings "The Pastoral Concert, "Sleeping Venus, and "The Sunset. ".
Giorgione exploited the new style evolved in Venice through sensual subject matter. The Sleeping Venus (1510) is a case in point. The woman is seen relax out in the open completely nude. Her intention was not to be seen but the viewer just happens to come across her undress body. She does not seem to care if she is seen; she is too preoccupied resting beneath the sheets to care whether anyone is looking, she either knows she is beautiful or doesn't seem to care. There is something very soft and delicate in her mannerisms to suggest she doesn't want to provoke or entice anyone but merely show her true self. Clothes hide her beauty, personality and self so when she is that exposed she shows her vulnerability and at the same type a silent bravery. Her solemn expression shows the sincerity and blatant nature she wants to prove to herself. She is showing not the world but her own self, who she is and why she chooses to go about.
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