Painted Ladies
500 years of female portraits in Western art, from DaVinci to Picasso.
In some ways, her unblinking gaze is a little creepy, but mostly I'm amazed by her shifting model of beauty over the centuries. In 500 years, has the feminine ideal changed at all? Has it morphed through so many changes that one archetypal woman bleeds through? Is everything past the soul of her eyes extraneous? Despite a culture of advertising, does attraction ever really change? Isn't the ideal form eternal? Is what persists a coy, flirting smile of the eyes? A hesitant, innocence? An empowering, feminist stare? What does female beauty boil down to after all?
And speaking of beauty... how beautiful is this necklace made from toenails of marathon runners?:
Posted by heydomsar
2007-06-04
go back | random brainstorm | go forth
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