El Nacimiento de Venus by Augusto Marín (Interpretation and Analysis)
El Nacimiento de Venus Source: La Fundación de las Artes Augusto Marín Without a doubt, Augusto Marín is one of the most important and famous Puerto Rican artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Although his style tends toward abstraction, Marín’s paintings often draw inspiration from more traditional themes and famed pieces of Western art. This painting, El Nacimiento de Venus (which translates to The Birth of Venus ), takes its impetus from Sandro Botticelli’s painting of the same name. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is one of the most recognizable paintings of the Renaissance period; in fact, it’s one of the most famous paintings in the Western world. The subject matter comes from classical mythology, depicting the moment that that the goddess Venus emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman; Venus is traditionally considered to be born of the sea-foam. She is the goddess of love and fertility in the Roman pantheon. Birth of Venus Source: Google Art Projec...