The (re)Birth of Venus

A number of parallels can be drawn between the Renaissance era, and the artistic, scientific, cultural revolution and the significant patronage that art experienced with NFTs, often referred to as the digital art renaissance. By drawing inspiration from Greco-Roman mythology and using the nude figure outside the Christian sacred field, Sandro Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus" (circa 1485) was considered revolutionary. The goddess of love and beauty was represented there surrounded by allegorical figures of earthly love on the one hand, and spiritual love on the other. While the figure was central to my oil painting works, my generative art work is designed entirely using programming code; not having yet developed the algorithm to generate the human anatomy (!) I made an exception by introducing an external element to the code. I fed my program with a silhouette taken from the painting "The Birth of Venus" (1862) by the French painter Amaury Duval, property of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. This image, a simple black and white JPG, is freely interpreted with Javascript code to create this "generative Venus". As in Botticelli's work, the figure represents less a feminine ideal than it represents the beauty of the earthly world, while celebrating that of the spirit - or the love of art made with mathematics. — Generative art Made with Javascript code JPG file 5625 x 10000 pixels