Experiment

[silk_noir]

Interesting, but what would you say it proves? What do you think?

Art's classical nudes get Photoshopped to be skinnier

Comments

[tedeisenstein]

As long as they don't go mucking around on the originals, why not? It doesn't "prove" anything; people have been doing things to other generations' art for, well, generations, sometimes good, sometimes bad. In a few years I'm sure they'll go in the other direction - as well they should, since every generation has the right to choose for itself what it considers perfection in beauty

[jamiam]

So, he's not trying very hard to make attractive skinny bodies? So they usually look... just... weird after he's done with them. Or alarming. The second Venus looked okay, but otherwise, it was pretty grotesque.

[houseboatonstyx]

I agree. It might prove something if it was better done. Why the wasp waists? That only brought them up to the Victorian era. ;-)

On the whole though, not a bad idea. The contrast could show us just how odd our current standards are.

[evil_fionn]

From my perspective, they took very feminine looking bodies and made them androgynous. What I find rather funny is that the figures in the original paintings were an idealized version of perfect during that time period... and those figures were next to impossible for a majority to attain due to lifestyle.
The slimmed down versions are OUR idea of perfection... and considering how obsessed we are with dieting, next to impossible for a majority of women to obtain due to lifestyle. Reality is, most women today fit the original, most women THEN fit the updated version.
The moral is, advertisers and artisits generally always sell the abnormal or unusual as the ideal, because hey, if you already look the way they say you're supposed to, you won't buy their crap. Plus, there's the whole thing of, "If everyone attains this image, what makes me special NOW?"

[silk_noir]

Well said.