News
Apr 29, 2012 1:06AM
Fertility statues. This particular one is called Woman of Willendorf.
Very famous. Believed to have brought fertility to women struggling to bear children.
Would not be considered beautiful in modern definition, but it’s pretty clear that the female sex organs define it’s significance. Were the sex organs missing, do you think scientists would be able to correlate the sculpture with mating or human reproduction? Why is showing sexual organs of a female more effective at triggering primal attraction? It’s built in there, isn’t it?
Entertainment
Apr 29, 2012 12:48AM
Anna May Wong was an Asian American actress.
Minority women were exotified, still are today, and I’m sure that helped a lot in her sex appeal back in those days. But what I’m particularly interested in is looking for the common factor among these beauties. It’s one thing to say that I’m personally picking them, but it’s another to be able to trace the history of aesthetic American beauty by doing simple research. Does Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker start to look alike? What does that mean? Let’s say you want to succeed in the “image” industry, what could you deduce from these shared traits so that you could have the cutting edge?
Entertainment
Apr 29, 2012 12:43AM
Josephine Baker was a black beauty back in the 1920s.
Think about how taboo it must have been back then. People weren’t so open about their interracial lust. Also, look at how much skin she’s showing!!!
And this one’s from Wikipedia! Can imagine now why so many men didn’t live past 30, they died of heart-attacks at these peepshows!
Art & Beauty
Apr 29, 2012 12:31AM
In the 1920s, the “Gibson Girl” was the personification of feminine beauty. Imagine that, some cartoonist made her up. They sold a lot of pillow cases and merchandise.
More about the Gibson Girl at Wikipedia.
News
Apr 29, 2012 12:27AM
As long as I’m documenting what Americans have been teaching to their youths as history’s muses, here are some that have started wars:
Helen of Troy
I’m sure were she real, she probably wouldn’t look like Diane Kruger, but she’s not bad on the eyes.
Next is Cleopatra…
Americans got their definitive Elizabeth Taylor:
Angelina Jolie, oh my!
But my personal favorite was Leonor Varela on TV.
I’m sure there have been many other interpretations, but that’s up to you to post. ;)
Art & Beauty
Apr 29, 2012 12:17AM
The Venus de Milo
No one knows who sculpted it, but everyone wants to believe in it’s aesthetic value.
Art & Beauty
Apr 29, 2012 12:12AM
Leonardi Da Vinci unintentionally defined beauty for the ages with the Mona Lisa.
Of course, this was back in the day when the rendering of the hands was what was really appreciated. Nowadays, it would be considered a “fetish”. If you’re a model and can find a demographic that is looking for particular body parts, make sure you keep your body in good shape. There might be a paying customer looking for nude earlobes!
Art & Beauty
Apr 28, 2012 12:11AM
The first scanned “Internet” babe was Lena Sjooblom from Playboy.
So, this was in 1972. Have the beauty standards changed?
More on the history of the first digitized/scanned model Google Search for Lena Sjooblom Playboy.
