Body on display

Artist are displaying beauty through various media since ages. We have ample no. of examples

from Indian, Gothic and Roman civilization. The gorgeous beauty of human body and its

anatomy been always a force of magical attraction. The ultimate beauty of human figure largely

painted by most of the western painters close to its real appearance with inner expressions and

emotions.

By: Aanchal Srivastava

Body been on display since when male and female slaves were sold for different purposes.

It's a long trend of earning through body while the cost were decided on appearance. Whether

Bernini's sculpture or Raphael's paintings all depicted fantasy of inner beauty through human

figures to display emotions. In 80 painter Robert Mapplethorpe, rendered his predominantly

black and white photography.

His provocative thematics, frequently involving overt nudity, sexually explicit moments,

homoeroticism and the aesthetics of sado machoism. Few considered him famous for

notorious because of what can be perceived as obscene imagery, and for art lovers

Mapplethrope was the conceiver of unique poetics, making the hidden and the tabooed accessible to the masses.

By: Aanchal Srivastava

Beauty of body is also displayed on ramp, sensuous scenes of movies, erotic sculptures of

Khajuraho and used widely in advertisement. The designs" peek a boob" by Alexandre Vauthier

explored and presented human body with fashion experiments.

This is the era to look beautiful. Most of the woments are confident when they flaunt with their

body features. It is a result of long struggle of those artists and beauty lovers who gone beyond

the time and fought from orthodox minds.