For my first assessed project for the Fine Art module of the HND, I was instructed to find a Renaissance painting and transpose it into a modern context.
I chose to work on Titians' "The Three Ages Of Man"
I found the couple in this painting particularly interesting. The body language between them and how it represented the relationship between men and women in the time of Titian, in contrast to how we perceive the relationship between men and women in this day and age.
In Titians time, the role of the female was to be shy, demure and follow the males lead. This can be clearly observed in Titians depiction. Whereas, nowadays I believe that the gender roles have not only become more equal, but infact in many cases, we now find that women are the more dominant of the two sexes when it comes to the pursuit of relationships/sex. This, of course, is not true for every given case, but it is definitely an accepted norm in our modern society.
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