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Classic nudes in modern proportions

2012-04-07 18:10:31.874288+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Art's great nudes have gone skinny

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has taken some great (and, to be honest, not so great) paintings of nudes from the past and reimagined what they would look like if their bodies conformed to what the 21st-century thinks of as an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing – and quite shocking in what they say about our modern attitudes to women's bodies

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