!! OMG, Venus reborn: 90s waif Venus !!

» Posted By Phillip On Thursday, February 9, 2012 | category: Art | 4 comments

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This masterpiece painted by Alexandre Cabanel depicting the birth of Venus? Yeah, something’s wrong with it: Venus. Or rather her hips, according to our contemporary standards of beauty inflamed by the powers of Photoshop. Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano highlights this fact in Venus, a project that slims down art history’s famous nudes from Botticelli to Ingres. Rubens, for one, would have been shocked. See the rest of Giordano’s re-imagined nudes over at Flavorwire.

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4 Comments on "OMG, Venus reborn: 90s waif Venus"

  2. Pappardelle has a Brand New Hag | February 10, 2012 at 7:29 am | Reply

    I’d hit both.

  4. ROJAK | February 9, 2012 at 7:06 pm | Reply

    so this is masterpiece of naked chick

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