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Sculptures of female bodies;beauty standards in art? |
I went to a gallery today and again i saw sculptures of women whose bodies wouldn`t fit in today`s beauty standards i.e. they wouldn`t be considered attractive...... I`ve noticed that many of famous sculptors and artists from the reneissance period (Michelangelo,Da Vinci...) have appreciated that kind of female beauty...and even some of the recent sculptors. I am talking about sculptures of women with small breasts and so to say curvy tighs. We go to museums, galleries, etc. and admire works of art, but today that`s just not the idea of female beauty , right? So, why is that? society has a different perception on beauty these days, its like fashion it changes all the time. Anyone who truly appreciates art will still find the original woman beautiful. When silhouette pictures of female bodies were show to a tribe of primitive men - the men always picked the wide hips as the best body. When asked why - because they can have babies easier the other women would die trying. That is a totally logical reason for choosing the "perfect body". But another primitive tribe thinks women should have their teeth chiseled into sharp "V" shape. So it must not be just our culture and the media directing our taste in what is beautiful. We just seem to have gone for the skinny adolescent female body - with big boobs placed too high on the chest. And the more we buy into the more the diet - cosmetic - surgery industries can profit. Maybe that is the answer. in the past, a heavier set lady meant a healthier lady, more fit to bear children and survive. and the artist worked with what he had and didn't embelish. today we embellish...and models have breast implants and such...my first wife had large breasts when i met her, but i swear marriage and three children shrank them mellons to lemons in no time. but she is the only woman i have ever known with naturally large breasts and small curvy body occurring simultaneously at any time in her life. my second wife had large breasts, but she was a large woman, too, and that was her end, with the cigarretts, she died from emphysema...my present wife has small breasts and a small body, (and neither one of us smoke) but she is a good model, though larger women are easier to draw. go figure. If you've ever done any figure drawing or sculpting then you will know that a variety of body types is more interesting than depicting the minor variations of the same petite model over and over again. Voluptuous curves on zaftig women are very feminine, and pleasing to the eye - as well being nicer to hug than a bag of antlers. Slightly plump ladies, (and even very plump ones), were used to depict bounty and fertility in art back when most people lived closer to the land and life was less certain, and having large families was important to survival. There's nothing wrong with more slender women, but a woman with a little meat on her bones has a beauty of her own as well. |
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