The renaissance is a period of time from the 14th century to the 17th century, where art took a step to a new way of thinking.
The renaissance means reborn or rebirth. depending on there you are in Europe.
During the renaissance artists started to use perspective and to draw from the landscape and to use thing around them for inspiration. they stopped drawing and painting from the bible and taking a religious take on ideas and they strayed to express their own ideas and views in things.
I studied Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’.
I like this painting because of the way that he has used pail/pastel colours. also the hair, I like the way that it flows in the wind. it looks like a style that I have also used from time to time then I have been drawing people.
The leaf motifs that decorated Islamic objects originated in ancient Rome. Middle Eastern artists copied and adapted the scrolling vines and acanthus foliage that could be seen on Roman buildings. Muslim potters working in Christian Spain continued these decorative traditions, as did artists elsewhere in Europe In the 16th century, these spiral patterns, with plant stems and curved, pointed leaves, became known in the West as ‘arabesques’.
Blue and White Wares
Patterns in blue and white were popular in the Middle East from the 14th century. Middle Eastern potters took these patterns from the blue and white porcelain imported from China. Later, their designs were imitated in Europe. After, 1513, however, the Portuguese established direct trade with China. Wealthy Europeans then began to commission blue and white porcelain for themselves, sometimes in large quantities.
Source:http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/style-guide-renaissance
