Work title: "C Goddess Elementary Venus; examination of Botticelli's line"

Size: 14 1/2" tall, the pine block base is 4" square, shell is 2" wide

Medium: Assemblage Sculpture

Content: Surreal, Abstract, Nature, nude, female, goddess

List of materials from base upwards: (all assemblage materials are sanitized before use for safety & best archival quality)

- vintage leather, - re-claimed vintage pine wood block base, - metal screw, - natural palm plant stems, - pine dowel rod, - copper wire, - brass ring, - natural beeswax, - naturally holed fossil (holey stone), - vintage gathered sea shell, - adhesives, - acrylic paint, - natural beeswax

About the Piece:

Made from a variety of natural and man made objects, this assemblage sculpture speaks to us of the simplicity of nature within complex structures; simple things come together in order to make a more complex whole. This piece is an intentionally primitive depiction of Venus, in tribute to the painter Botticelli. Venus, or Aphrodite, is a Roman Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sexual healing, and the waters. She is said to be, "an extremely great and terrible Being at the same time". The present day nearly always reflects upon, or borrows from, the past. Through all time, it is a part of human nature to seek beauty and love ... and then to complicate the whole thing!

The art work by Tree Pruitt is a play upon a painting by Sandro Botticelli, who looked to the past to create his own art work; known as "The Birth of Venus". His painting "depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The anatomy of Venus and various subsidiary details do not display the strict classical realism of Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. Most obviously, Venus has an improbably long neck, and her left shoulder slopes at an anatomically unlikely angle. Such details only enhance the great beauty of the painting, and some have suggested it prefigures mannerism. The painting was one of a series which Botticelli produced, taking as inspiration written descriptions by the 2nd century historian Lucian of masterpieces of Ancient Greece which had long since disappeared. The ancient painting by Apelles was called Venus Anadyomene, "Anadyomene" meaning "rising from the sea"; this title was also used for Botticelli's painting, The Birth of Venus only becoming its better known title in the 19th century. Over time, venus came to refer to any artistic depiction in post-classical art of a nude woman, even when there was no indication that the subject was the goddess."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)