Transformation of the Human Body in Fashion and Art
Everything I want to understand about the Human Body
My blog is a collection of old and new thoughts about my favorite research into the human body. From the mind-stirring ideals of antiquity to modern fashion photographs – masterpieces of the most famous photographers. How often the ideals of beauty of the human body have changed!
The Unique Significance of the Italian Renaissance for a New Perspective on Bodyness in ART
The Unique Significance of the Italian Renaissance for a New Perspective on Bodyness in ART
The Renaissance is the Second Birth of Physicality in Art
THE RENAISSANCE IS THE SECOND BIRTH OF PHYSICALITY IN ART
Corporeality and Medieval Mentality
“The Gothic artists…could not paint the nude because it was an idea – an idea which their philosophy of form was unable to grasp” [Kenneth Clark]
The Naked Body in Antiquity. How the history of Nudité began
The contemplation of a naked body – returns the viewer to the level of consciousness, and at the same time, against insignificant thoughts and feelings. A person does not react so violently to any other image, whether it is a beautiful landscape or an image of a magnificent animal. Only by considering oneself similar, the…
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