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The National Gallery is collaborating with Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication on 'Transcriptions: Sound’, an innovative new project which involves sound design students producing a three-minute response to a painting of their choice in the Gallery's collection.
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From the sound artist:
In Botticelli’s remarkable and serene painting an upright and alert Venus, the god of love, is juxtaposed with a reclining Mars, god of war, demonstrating that love can conquer even the greatest of warriors. My sound piece emphasises the power of Venus. It captures the couple’s love-making and the playfulness of the satyrs, who even playing a conch shell in his ear, cannot wake Mars.
George Benson
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN