This piece shows the figure of a woman with large breasts, belly, buttocks, and thighs. In it's time, this statue was meant to represent a strong woman, in excellent health, who was fertile, and could bear strong children and live a long life. This statue was an ideal image of what a man would look for in a woman. However, in todays society, that is not the case... With the development of modern medicine and technologies, woman of all shapes, sizes, and capacities are able to be heathly, live long, and bear children. Now, value is placed on how skinny and petite a woman looks. In fact, being skinny and petite is seen as being healthy and in shape, as to where overweight women are seen as unhealthy, unfit, and unattractive. To give you an idea take a look at the photo of the, "supermodel." A model is one who is seen as the ideal candidate to show off a particular style of clothes, makeup, or fashion item. This is what today's society looks for in a "beautiful" woman.
Society has such a misconceived concept of what things, in reality, should be. I blame mass media for all the ignorant and repulsive things that happen from day to day, all because people treat money more highly than happiness and human life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that society has completely altered the definition of what beauty is. It's interesting that at one time, full-figured women were considered to be wealthy, stable individuals and that now skinny women are praised as healthy and "beautiful". The media, including Art, impacts also impacts the way we view beauty.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to disagree with you. The woman in the modeling picture are not healthy and more than likely not having their period due to malnutrution. They would not be able to have a child. I suggest doing a little research on exactly what super models have to do to maintain that young boy figure. I do agree that the primative woman does seem overly large. But, like we've discussed this was a representation of the ultimate mother and not an exact image of a person. Thanks! Milae Weiser
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