In the painting Mars and Venus Poussin reflects a loving and relaxed environment. The use of warm colors provides to the painting love and sexuality. Bare-skinned people in all over the painting represent freedom and the desire to do something inexplicable. The colors in the background exhibit a normal day in the woods where people feel pleased. Little angels take control of the situation. They look like little kids playing around with the adults. These are portraying cupid, a well known angel from the Greek mythology that caused people to fall in love after being touched with his arrow. In the right corner of the painting a woman with a blue veil shows her nuduty and serenity. She looks relaxed and not connected with the exterior conflicts
