POSTURE, POSING AND COMPOSITION

Venus’ posture in the painting is the main element i feel would be most effective to adapt upon to help relate my own, original concepts to the initial image. From various artist reviews and websites, i have realized that how she is positioned is not only interesting to me but something many others have considered when analyzing the image as it is almost unbelievable. The characters and all meanings of the painting are fictional, however, it is interesting to challenge ideas of why Botticelli positioned Venus so improbable. I am really interested in how she so gracefully hides her nude body with her floating hair and hands but remaining in this unbalanced, disproportionate position upon the shell. Straight away, i knew i wanted to consider using this similar idea of posture and posing for my own models and alongside this factor, possibly incorporate ideas surrounding the shell and sea she stands on. Looking into similar posing to really take force of this idea would be most helpful going forward and possible editorials that use unconventional but relevant posing for their models should be a running theme for my research.