What kind of creativity does art have when it travels through time?
'Bad artist imitation, great artist stolen. ' - Picasso
An impressive series of later portraits by Agnolo Bronzino, dating from the 1550s, known as the Portrait of a Man with a Statuette of Venus, its sitter has recently been identified as Pierantonio Bandini (born 1514), one of the wealthiest and most leading Florentine bankers living in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century. The blue figure of a "Venus Pudica" (modest Venus) may refer to Pierantonio's collecting interests and the antiquities recorded at his property at Monte Cavallo, Rome.
Artistic inspiration is mutual, regardless of time, space, and the integration of any form. When people appreciate a piece of art, they are connected to another piece of art - the dynamism of art.
Yves Klein’s 1962 Venus Blue (Bleue) features Klein’s signature International Klein Blue (IKB) on a plaster cast of the celebrated Venus de Milo sculpture. Klein redefines monochrome by recreating the exquisite human form at its finest in a three-dimensional field in the dreamy IKB. This appropriation of the famous Greek sculpture in a painted IKB, gives the dated masterpiece a commercial appeal, and acts as a precursor to Pop art.
Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini
1550-55
Oil on wood, 107 x 83 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Yves Klein, Venus Bleue (La Vénus d'Alexandrie), 1962-1982
by Lisa Jack, Artpendix Press
Published 30th Oct 2021
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