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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Sexiness Throughout The Ages

There is nothing more attractive then a beautiful woman.And the ancients seemed to have the perfect ideal down pat.Look at this very old painting of what man used to consider the perfect woman...Venus.I can't argue...
..this is exactly what a beautiful woman should look like.


In fact,until the advent of movies and television,fe- male beauty was still defined by the artist whom made these classical beauties famous for centuries for their absolute majestic splendor:Peter Paul Rubens.Being called Rubensque meant that you were by far one of the most beautiful women around...Something I truly agree with.


But,espe- cially with the advent of television-which initially had very small screens-some media/ce- lebrity woman became carica- tures of real woman...sticking out-way out-of proportion in very unrealistic ways in order to better stand out.....

...soon,these new exaggerations became the new acceptable norms.Real beauty was considered plain.But this new look was hard to find and even harder to make and to maintain.So, soon the pendulum started to swing the other way.Fashion was easy to control with thin young models.Suddenly,instead of the almost grotesque overly endowed,the super thin concentration camp waif became the new norm!
With this thought in mind,I have searched the art world for the next super duper beauty type and found it in this beauty from the first half of the twentieth century....scroll down for my idea of the ideal twenty first century woman....


































































4 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I was a little girl, I thought Olive Oyl was beautiful!

I, on the other hand, look like one of Rubens' beauties...

Mixter

Dharma said...

I love the paintings that you chose. They show very beautiful women. It is sad that this society has wandered so far from that beauty and into stick figure land. It was very good to read that on my birthday. Thanks Drew!

What If There Is dog? said...

Beauty is in the hands of the beholder:-)

Anonymous said...

Wow. A man after my own tastes. Drew, you are too cool.