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Shelley’s Art Musings – Voluptuous Women in Art
What you probably don’t imagine is a much curvier woman, who has love handles and stretch marks. She doesn’t have the perfect thigh gap, in fact there is probably no gap at all, and her breasts are probably not as perky as you imagined the first woman’s to be. You probably are not thinking that her clothes are a pulling on her hips and that she might look less than perfect. Of course, I might be casting a massive aspersion here, and making the assumption that is how everyone would picture the perfect woman, simply because this is how the media portrays women, to a rather unhealthy level. Women and…
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Rubens, Making Women Look Good Since 1698
Though Peter Paul Rubens’ impressive works are around 400 years old, I still find comfort in his representations of the female body. They are round, plush, and beautiful. Ruben’s women make me feel more comfortable in my own skin, regardless of my weight or how many dimples are on my thighs – okay, that’s not entirely true, I have a mini-breakdown any time I discover one and try chalking it up more to the fact that I’m getting older and less that I haven’t stepped foot in a gym in at least four years*. What is going on in our society where models and actresses are all thinner than thin,…






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