Oh tristesse! The nudes of Ruben, Velazquez, Bouguereau and Botticelli get photoshopped

[DuaneBidoux]

So much for Rubenesque: An artist by the memorable name of Anna Utopia Giordano has reshaped the famous figures of several nudes from classical paintings

[link:http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/giving_famous_nudes_the_photoshop_treatment_20120214/|

[AmyDeLune]

1. Wow! Those look awful!

Making a full figured woman comparatively anorexic is disturbing. Not to mention the proportions are all off now. Maybe she should paint her own works of art instead of defacing other peoples'. I assume she also has a shelf full of colorized movies too.

[cliffordu]

2. I LOVE the originals.

I love women who look like women

not little boys with breasts


Seriously. Keep yer Sports Illustrated starvation experiments, I want gravitas, I want substance.

I'm involved with a woman like that now.

I hold her with all my might.

Every night.

[csziggy]

10. Spider Robinson described skinny women as

"Teenaged boys with peach pits in their shirt pockets" and had his protagonist go on to become involved with a full figured woman, though Robinson described her much more lovingly.

As a "substantial" woman, that made me feel good.

[Orrex]

3. The online slideshow is the worst format ever devised for sharing information

Absolute worst. A collection of stone tablets buried in a swamp and separated by hundreds of yards of alligator-infested muck would be better. Somebody somewhere must get paid a five hundred dollars every time an online slideshow is posted; what else could possibly justify the continued use of this clunky and restrictive format?

Beyond that, meh. Healthy, beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes. To condemn one group as "too skinny" to be attractive is every bit as bad as declaring another group "too fat."

[siligut]

4. Online slide shows maximize ad exposure

I agree, the format is an absolute pain. I am posting one of the pics to save people from having to go to the link. I hope any mod or jury will see it as art and not as nudity for nudity's sake.

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[Myrina]

6. That edit IS awful

WTH? Give her some cookies!!

[siligut]

7. The artist skinnyfied everything but the boobs

Maybe trying to show today's standards, just awful when put in this context

[nolabear]

8. All her humanity's gone!

That's what's wrong with all of them. They look like cheap pinups rather than sensuous women. Wow.

[siligut]

13. Good way to put it, I agree

The same thing happens with extensive, unnecessary cosmetic surgery.

[hedgehog]

11. What's really shocking is how attuned we become

to one style of human beauty! I think the photoshops make an excellent point!

[siligut]

15. I wonder what the push was that we now think that the women in these works of art are too fat

They look beautiful and healthy, what happened to make us, as a society, think any different?

[DuaneBidoux]

21. I'm the OP and I agree...my point was that somehow the original women weren't good enough.

Not that the thin women were better (or worse).

[Orrex]

25. Understood--my fault for not specifying my target

Sorry about that. I shouldn't have implied that you were the one issuing the commentary.


Let us put this misunderstanding behind us and unite in our common hatred of the online slideshow!

[Generic Other]

5. YUCK

They lack substance!

[HappyMe]

9. Good grief!

Somebody has too much time on her untalented hands.

[WolverineDG]

12. Funny how she kept the boobs the same size

And in one case, made them larger. In real life, that wouldn't happen without surgical intervention.

[csziggy]

14. What an inappropriate middle name for this Photoshop butcher

Anna Utopia Giordano. It should be Distopia.

[hedgehog]

17. I find it fascinating how much anger these photoshops provoke.

Ms. Giordano is not improving the originals, she is changing the originals to confront us with our own unrealistic expectations for the female form. I do know women who are naturally as slim as her photoshops, but none who are as slim and with large breasts. Which is worse, Ms. Giordano's photoshops, or the many women who submit to surgery so they may resemble them?

[nolabear]

18. Oh I agree. I'm not mad at her. It's fascinating.

But if that's the effect she's going for she's done a great job. The photoshopped women look surprisingly cheesy.

[AmyDeLune]

19. One thing really disturbing is Ms Giordano's own words

Art is always in search of the perfect physical form,' Giordano says on her website. 'It has evolved through history, from the classical proportions of ancient Greece to the prosperous beauty of the Renaissance, to the spindly look of models like Twiggy and the athletic look of our own time.'

(bold mine)

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/art-classical-nudes-photoshopped-skinnier-gallery-1.1021831#ixzz1mVpX26DJ

Does she really think she's making the women in these paintings athletic? Twiggy, to the best of my knowledge, is one of those naturally thin women, not an anorexic junkie.

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If she's really trying to point out how wrong what she's done to these is, great! If she really thinks they look better this way, Eww!

[flying rabbit]

20. I was expecting anorexic models given the disgust on this thread

Don't think its as bad as all that.
The worst part is the slideshow format.

[lunatica]

22. The originals look much better than the bad replicas

The originals look natural, not like their sucking in their abdomens and sticking their breasts out.

[Bruce Wayne]

23. What's with all the hate in this thread? This is hilarious!

I don't know if the 'shopper meant it to be so, but even in unintentional, this is the funniest thing I've seen hung in a gallery in years.

[Bruce Wayne]

24. Here's more art by the same Ms Giordano

This is an artist with a sense of humor.

[BiggJawn]

26. Might arouse some Catholic priests..

But they do nothing for me. Boys with Knockers, not my cuppa...