Visual Arts
Investigate the ways artists develop visual codes and visual language to communicate ideas in their artworks. Refer to a range of artists and artworks.
Artists develop visual codes and visual language to communicate ideas in their artworks. This is specifically seen through Giorgio da Castelfranco (Giorgione), Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) and Édouard Manet, where each artist successfully incorporates their own ideas into their artwork. Titian and Giorgione are both Italian painters born in the same century – Giorgione in 1477/8 and Titian in 1488. Manet however is a French painter and was born in 1832, coming from a completely separate century. Each artist has an artwork that features a reclining nude where they communicate their own techniques and ideas into the works. The use of the reclining nude conveys the role of the woman as perceived by men as an object to be viewed or desired.
Giorgione came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto in Venice. He was extremely influential to other artists and was one of the initiators of High Renaissance style in Venetian art. There is little record of his early life, however it is shown that Giorgione served his apprenticeship with Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini in 1490, who is well known to have revolutionised Venetian painting. His colour, technique and mood of his paintings are clearly related to Bellini’s late style. Giorgione died in 1510 in Venice, Italy at age 33. He was known to be the first Italian to paint landscapes with figures as moveable pictures in their own frames, and the first to use glowing and melting intensity in his works.
One of Giorgione’s works includes the artwork Sleeping Venus or The Dresden Venus created in 1510. It is oil on canvas and measures 108 by 175cm. The reclining figure is used across the whole width of the painting making a long, continuous slope of body where the goddess’ curves echo the curves of hillside, easing the viewer’s gaze and relaxing the eyes. The landscape
Artists develop visual codes and visual language to communicate ideas in their artworks. This is specifically seen through Giorgio da Castelfranco (Giorgione), Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) and Édouard Manet, where each artist successfully incorporates their own ideas into their artwork. Titian and Giorgione are both Italian painters born in the same century – Giorgione in 1477/8 and Titian in 1488. Manet however is a French painter and was born in 1832, coming from a completely separate century. Each artist has an artwork that features a reclining nude where they communicate their own techniques and ideas into the works. The use of the reclining nude conveys the role of the woman as perceived by men as an object to be viewed or desired.
Giorgione came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto in Venice. He was extremely influential to other artists and was one of the initiators of High Renaissance style in Venetian art. There is little record of his early life, however it is shown that Giorgione served his apprenticeship with Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini in 1490, who is well known to have revolutionised Venetian painting. His colour, technique and mood of his paintings are clearly related to Bellini’s late style. Giorgione died in 1510 in Venice, Italy at age 33. He was known to be the first Italian to paint landscapes with figures as moveable pictures in their own frames, and the first to use glowing and melting intensity in his works.
One of Giorgione’s works includes the artwork Sleeping Venus or The Dresden Venus created in 1510. It is oil on canvas and measures 108 by 175cm. The reclining figure is used across the whole width of the painting making a long, continuous slope of body where the goddess’ curves echo the curves of hillside, easing the viewer’s gaze and relaxing the eyes. The landscape