{"id":682,"date":"2011-04-29T07:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-04-29T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:49:49","slug":"a-botticelli-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/29\/a-botticelli-mash-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A Botticelli Mash-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/31a-botticele-mashup.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683 alignnone\" title=\"31a.botticele mashup\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/31a-botticele-mashup.jpg?resize=392%2C504\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a>When I took the photo of the Calla Lilies earlier in the week I had every intention of doing some sort of tribute to Georgia O\u2019Keefe or perhaps Diego Rivera but the muse had other ideas.\u00a0 I kept thinking about the Angel Gabrielle and his trumpet.\u00a0 The Calla\u2019s trumpet form kept toning in my ear, directing me to my old art history books still manning the shelves from college days.\u00a0 I looked up the early renaissance painter, Botticelli, I was thinking of his <em>Annunciation <\/em>painting in which the angel comes to a very reluctant Virgin Mary with the news that she shall carry God\u2019s child.\u00a0 Right there next to this image was Botticelli\u2019s most recognizable painting of today, <em>The Birth of Venus.\u00a0 <\/em>These two images seemed to embody the twofold symbolism of purity and sexuality that the lovely Calla Lily carries and echoes the dual stereotypes that have constrained women throughout time, history, art and society.\u00a0 And so this Botticelli mash-up was born, <em>The Birth of Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 A reluctant Mary with Venus\u2019 flowing tresses is born from the twin nature of the Calla Lily.\u00a0 The angel Gabrielle calls her with his Calla trumpet while she demurely resists his advances.\u00a0 As much as women have progressed in our society, this struggle still persists.\u00a0 One need not look far to see the push to be pure and the signal to be sexy.\u00a0 From Barbies\u2019 and Brat dolls to movies and video games, girls are fed a fantasy of an unattainable double life; the Siren and the Saint rolled into on big Venus\/Mary mash-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/31b-boticelli.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-684\" title=\"cestello\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/31b-boticelli.jpg?resize=590%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm\/paint\/auth\/botticelli\/\">http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm\/paint\/auth\/botticelli\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took the photo of the Calla Lilies earlier in the week I had every intention of doing some sort of tribute to Georgia O\u2019Keefe or perhaps Diego Rivera but the muse had other ideas.\u00a0 I kept thinking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88,90],"tags":[195,233,761,816],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","category-mandala","tag-botticelli","tag-christian-symbolism","tag-the-birth-of-venus","tag-women-in-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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