Perception Of Beauty

• Paragraph 22: The hallucination of beauty grows more influential because of market manipulation. The diet, cosmetic surgery and pornography industries are controlling billions of economies. • Paragraph 23 – 24: Wolf highlights that “contemporary culture directs attention to imagery of the iron maiden [- a body shaped medieval instrument of torture that was in feature of a lovely, smiling young woman -],” (196) by trapping women into the beauty

Introduction One of the highest expressions of an ideal return to the Golden Age in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Fossi 268). Artist Sandro Botticelli (Fossi 268) Title and Location Primavera, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (Fossi 268-9) Date, Signature, and Inscription ca.

We all have different perceptions of people, just the same as the people who came before us. Every decade in America’s history since at least 1900, there has been a change in what society defines as beautiful. For example, in 1900-1910 the Gibson Girl was what everyone wanted to be. She was created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (“Body Image…”).

An example of a portrait from the early 1500’s, representing a woman in front of her houses window. Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, women’s lives were strongly shaped by

These culturally dependent ideas of beauty have taken shape during a long period of time, and the psychological experiences of beauty of the people using power in different historical times have more or less defined the standards of beauty for entire societies. The ideal human of the Antique can be considered a founder of the Western standard of beauty, since the archetype of human beauty is still seen as an athletic person with a symmetric face. During the Reneissance the Antique human came back into fashion, and the place of that ideal in the core of the culture was sealed. Those who shaped beauty ideals both during the Reneissance and other historical times were often artists and their employers, the rich elite. Thus it can be said that the art wold and the people in leading positions on the society are the ones responsible for standards of beauty.

From an early age, we are exposed to the western culture of the “thin-ideal” and that looks matter (Shapiro 9). Images on modern television spend countless hours telling us to lose weight, be thin and beautiful. Often, television portrays the thin women as successful and powerful whereas the overweight characters are portrayed as “lazy” and the one with no friends (“The Media”). Furthermore, most images we see on the media are heavily edited and airbrushed

In the painting known as Venetian Women at their Toilet (c. 1545), the Italian artist Paris Bordon combines contrasting colours, detailed bodily and facial expressions, and an interesting organization of planes to depict just that: a troika of Italian women in various trappings sitting in a dimly-lit dressing room, at least two of whom, the Scottish National Gallery affirms, would ‘have been recognised immediately by contemporaries as courtesans’ (Figure 1). It could also be argued, however, that Bordon largely employs the afore-mentioned elements in his painting to bolster his construction of a subtle yet impressive criticism of (Venetian) society’s carnality and rampant sexual objectification of female bodies. The notion that Bordon means to communicate a message about the sexual objectification of female bodies to the viewer at all is emphasized by Bordon’s emphasis on the bodies of his courtesans. If one were to examine the painting’s background, for example, one would find that it is, in fact, incredibly detailed: the Ionic columns bracketing the walls behind the women – and,

In terms of physical appearance, the ideality has evolved throughout different period of interests in fashion, and cosmetic, or aesthetic

The Harm of the Standardized Beauty on Women Every woman 's daily habit includes looking into the mirror while washing her teeth and combing her hair in the morning. The make-up is an undeniable necessity for the most modern working woman nowadays. After getting ready, if one is satisfied with her look, her day starts well, going confidently to work, but if her hair is messed up, because she forgot to wash it the other day, and she is in hurry, her day will rather be messed up, worrying if her colleagues will notice this small flaw of hers. The way we perceive ourselves forms our reality.

Bianca DeLaRosa
J. Atkins
Art Appreciation 160
October 17, 2015

 On Matters of Beauty: From Classicism to Contemporary



 There was a time when art and beauty seemed to be ideas that were nearly synonymous, or at the very least, things that were inseparable. In the documentary Beauty Matters, Philosopher Roger Scruton painstakingly dismantled modern notions and discussed the tendencies of modern and contemporary artists to desecrate the foundations of beauty and spirituality that had historically given light into the harsh existence of our mortal realm.

Question: To what extent can ideas of beauty in the western world said to be bound up with notions of race? In late modern times, the idealization of Western beauty spread to various areas in the world with globalization despite having different sense of beauty of cultures. The Western beauty, which is high eyebrows, large eyes, high cheekbones, a small nose, a narrow face (Cunningham, Roberts, Barbee, Druen and Wu, 1995, p. 268) and anti-ageing body, enforces itself with magazines and advertising that are published worldwide.

When we talk about Art History, most people will think about the “High Renaissance” , and the person during that time period people must known is Leonardo da Vinci, and his most famous art work “Mona Lisa”(1503-1505). But in the later time of the art world, the Dutch Baroque, there is another woman portrait became as famous as “Mona Lisa” , it is “Girl with a Pearl Earring”(1665) by Johannes Vermeer. During the High Renaissance, artists recognized people in the world of great strength, which they praised the beauty of human bodies and they chased imitation of ancient Greek art expression. It is considered a “renaissance” at that time: against religious hypocrisy, emphasize on human beings and physical strength. Art under the influence of

Furthermore, we will study the definition of a body image and what the causes are for developing a negative body image. In this part also the influence of the media will be taken into account. However, before these things can be discussed it has to be clear if there are certain aspects or characteristics that belong to every beauty ideal around the world and how we learn what is pretty and what is not.

Bryan Turner and Zheng Yanwen, the editors of The Body in Asia, posit that “the process of globalization changes cultural values – possibly bringing about a certain standardization of cultures – then the different forms of embodiment are weakened and national distinctiveness is eroded.” Though the models found in Culturally Chinese skin-whitening advertisements are a hybrid mix of both Caucasian and Asian females, these Asian models have specific features that have been adopted from Caucasian beauty culture and superimposed onto Asian bodies as the beauty ideal such as large eyes with eyelid folds, straight white teeth and matte

The History of Beauty Umberto Eco raises the question in his work ‘why is the history of beauty documented solely through works of art?’ As Eco states, art is what we are left as examples. As a result, it gives us an insight into beauty standards throughout time and of different cultures around the world. Furthermore, artists ideally strive to create something that is appealing to the eye of the viewer, but also what the artist themselves envisions as beauty.