This chapter begins by stating that the human body is a canvas. Then through the study of two artists, the body is marked and expresses our deepest human emotions. Emotions make us human. Emotions are the natural instinct of every human being to express their feelings. The images in the textbook show their true selves by embodying their emotions through their naked bodies, showing how vulnerable the models are Emotions are telling the story behind each piece of art and photograph. The example in this chapter, Diana and Actaeon. Diana and Actaeon is a story depicting European Greek mythology. Diana (Greek: Artemis) is the goddess of the moon and hunting in Greek mythology (twin brother and sister to Apollo, the sun god), and Actaeon is a hunter in Greek mythology. According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Actaeon happened to see Diana bathing on Mount Kiselon, and in her rage, Diana turned Actaeon into a stag and was bitten to death by her own hounds. This story is often depicted in the plastic arts by painters. This painting, Diana and Actaeon, is characteristic of Titian’s mature style, focusing on the play of color in oil painting and shaping images with color. The picture is brilliantly colored and saturated, with sure and dashing brushstrokes. In many places, he uses direct painting method to thickly pile up pigments, especially his creative use of variable light and shadow and the depiction of the woman’s body in half shade, exploring different colors in unusual light to achieve color changes and spatial variations, and the wonderful effect of which is shocking and fascinating. He changed the traditional oil painting focus on the fine outline to the “color modeling” that gives full play to the language of oil painting itself, thus changing the way people view oil paintings – the best visual effect can be achieved only when they are at a certain distance from the picture. Titian was the first painter in Western oil painting to use the language of oil painting to its fullest extent, and influenced many painters in Europe.

This chapter in the article speaks of books: BODY OF ART