While their bottoms went under the digital scalpel, Ms Giordano also enlarged
the breasts – in keeping with today’s expectations of small hips and big
chests.
“I was retouching some photographs from a shoot for a friend’s book and
while I was playing with the skin tones and using corrective brush strokes,
I was reflecting on society, social networks and the need to be accepted,”
the artist, who lives between Milan and Naples, said on her website.
“Art is always in search of the perfect physical form – 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.”
The slimmed down Venuses prompted a vigorous debate on Italian social media
networks and blogs, with some people calling the retouched images “horrendous”
and musing on the ease with which fashion images can be manipulated
digitally.
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