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Neoma

(10,039 posts) Tue Jul 31, 2012, 09:55 AM Jul 2012

Classic Beauties Get a Shocking Phototshop Treatment [View all]

“What would have happened if the aesthetic standard of our society had belonged to the collective unconscious of the great artists of the past?” So asks Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano in her Venus project, which re-imagines classic artistic depictions of Venus with a modern and extreme Photoshop makeover. What begin as mostly Rubenesque beauties are transformed into busty, slim-waisted figures more closely matching the ideals we are bombarded with today.

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Classic Beauties Get a Shocking Phototshop Treatment [View all] Neoma Jul 2012 OP

"Six is the new 14" leveymg Jul 2012 #1

sad. patrice Jul 2012 #2

The modified images are strangely hideous. qb Jul 2012 #3

juxtaposition with unaltered bodies accentuates the hideousness zazen Jul 2012 #4

He also should have TlalocW Jul 2012 #5

Most telling line from the link: intheflow Jul 2012 #6

That's just our modern conditioning making that value judgement. harmonicon Aug 2012 #8

They were still being influenced by the Greek view of beauty 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #24

Well... not all is "fixed" parkia00 Jul 2012 #7

the original women are WAY more attractive, imo NoMoreWarNow Aug 2012 #9

Ugh Stargazer09 Aug 2012 #10

I spent my youth worrying about being too skinny. Neoma Aug 2012 #11

I got teased about that, too. Stargazer09 Aug 2012 #12

Well, it's like how angry shouting people try to scare other people to protect themselves. Neoma Aug 2012 #14

They ask "Which do you find more attractive?" DaveJ Aug 2012 #13

The masterpieces are far better than the photo-shopped copies. Beacool Aug 2012 #15

Not that they don't judge mens looks either. Neoma Aug 2012 #16

I prefer the more zoftig origionals. marble falls Aug 2012 #17

I saw this... GTurck Aug 2012 #18

I'll confess, though, that I find Durer's Eve a bit too chunky around the hips starroute Aug 2012 #19

Women aren't supposed to have man-hips. Neoma Aug 2012 #20

Scary! McCamy Taylor Aug 2012 #21

I don't see that slimming the Venus improved the work... I wonder how this experiment will be midnight Aug 2012 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author Pharaoh Aug 2012 #23