Canon of Beauty

 Hi everybody!

  Friday we had an Individuals and Societies lesson. We started the lesson by researching some  sculptures and paintings from the Renaissance.
 Then our teacher showed us some sculptures from the Medieval Periods and the Greek periods.
 We then analized those works of art and we saw some differences.
  Renaissance art is more alike with the Greek art because both of these time periods used the "Canon of Beauty". Usually people at that time made sculptures of humans differently and modified their pieces of art to match their prespective of what they thought beauty was.

        Work of Art name: David                                                                                                            Work of Art: Discobolus        
             Artist:Michelangelo                                                                                                                           Artist: Míron
               From Renaissance                                                                                                                            From Greeks

                                                                                       




 If we now see a sculpture from the Medieval age we can realize that there is not much beauty. Instead they are more focused on representing their religion and there is not many attention to details or beauty(body and face).
 In the Medieval period people were more intrested in the topic of the sculpture and in what the sculpture reperesnts.
 From this image we can see clearly that there is less facial expressions and less focus on the "Canon of Beauty".

 The "Canon of Beauty" still exists nowadays, but instead of it being represented in paintings and sculptures we can now see the beauty in simple photos. Obviously the beauty nowadays is a little different but there are still some similarities.

Canon of Beauty evolution

15th Century         16th Century        17th Century        18th Century         19th Century         20th Century      21th Century

The Three Graces

 In this timeline, we can see that the perspective of beauty has changed. In the "the three graces " From Rubens we can see clearly that Beauty at that time was being fat. Mainly because at that time they had lack of food and most of the people were skinny.                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Nowadays people think that being skinny is much more beautiful. 

Having an athletic body is also a main characteristic in nowadays' Canon of Beauty.                                                                                                               For us seeing a fat person is not the ideal kind of beauty, because being fat can mean that the person is unhealthy it could mean that the person doesn't do sport...

We think that skinny people are much more beautiful, people don't often like the appearance of fat people since it isn't very common nowadays.                                                              

                                              

See you next time bye!