Take Part photo editor Lauren Wade wanted to make a point about the way that the excessive use of Photoshop permeates our conceptions of beauty.
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Here, for example, with Francisco Goya’s Nude Maya, she whittled the waist, hips and thighs to match today’s notions of attractiveness.
Explained Wade, “We’ve taken a digital liquefy brush to the
painstakingly layered oils of some of the most celebrated paintings of
the female form, nipping and tucking at will. There may be something
sacrilegious in that, but the same could be said for our contemporary
ideas of beauty.”On Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, she added bigger boobs and a tinier waist.
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Paul Gauguin’s Two Tahitian Women, were slimmed down and also given boob jobs.
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Raphael’s Three Graces were shrunken down to half their size.
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Edgar Degas’ La Toilette was given all-around smaller proportions.
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(And bigger boobs).
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque got a smaller waist and butt.
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Even the shoulders on Amedeo Modigliani’s Nude Sitting on a Divan were slimmed down.
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In Titian’s Danaë With Eros, Eros was given the Photoshop treatment, too.
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Because the god of love should be cherubic, but not too cherubic.