The Sleeping Venus
The naked Venus made the diagonal movement and reclined in the outdoor nature. Her eyes were closed with a comfortable and quiet look. She seemed to be sleeping with her right hand on the back head and right leg bent in the left leg. The whole body was surrounded by a sealing oval curve. The artist placed the goddess on the natural scenery, which was not realistic, but an artistic conception. Giorgione was good at using soft and delicate strokes and smooth curve shaping. The body composition and the background’s natural linear formed the contrast, and naked and dense pleat veins made simple and complex contrast. The painter used the noble spirit and superb artistic skills to write an art symphony song with the harmony of man and the nature.
In Venice, Giorgione was the first outstanding artist into the golden age. From his masterpiece The Sleeping Venus, it was obvious: the painter was by means of the goddess Venus asylum to show a secular elegant taste, a beautiful body in harmony with the natural harmonious unification, the unity of body beauty and natural beauty, a sublimation of human beauty for the natural and artistic beauty. Here the woman was portrayed delicate and specific; the attitude was relaxed and natural; skin was plump and soft; the lines were smooth and elegant. This wonderful and harmonious female body and changing hills, mountains, villages, houses, trees, clouds and bedding fold curve, arc, line formed the echoing contrast harmony and contrast. All these ingeniously made a beautiful, comfortable and quiet visual symphony. Although, the painter did not complete the scenery part of this painting until he died (the scenery was finished by his apprentice Titian), from the composition of consciousness, the painting, his apprentice Titian was able to determine the painter tried to regard the nature as an important part of the body's natural and harmonious beauty. Just like the painting, quiet dusk natural state was like the sleeping Venus. Nobody knew whether Venus had dissolved into the embrace of nature or the nature became part of Venus's dream. This perhaps was the original painter Giorgione's original intention.
