Refining Fine Art

Ten Apples and a Flat Sponge reports that the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen is selling reproductions of with some artistic interpretation. Venus is it Jenny Craig or NutriSystem?



But wait there's more: Check out the new Aphrodite!

Can you believe it? " It's not just the supermodels on the cover of Cosmo, it's not just Oprah, it's not just Kiera Knightly or whatever her name is, being stretched and elongated on her movie posters. Oh, no! Even Botticelli's Venus and the Thorvaldsen Aphrodite are "too fat" and not bobble-headed enough to sell in today's market. They've been Slim-fasted and Photoshopped (or had ribs removed) because in someone's opinion, even neo-classic art lovers who would be looking to decorate their homes with reproductions of their favorite pieces would not want to look at such chubby women as artists like Botticelli chose, as models.

Can you BELIEVE this? The catalog is full of these, the "Three Graces", Rodin's women, and a poor "Hebe, Cupbearer of the Gods" who looks like she's been given silicon breast implants.

This is hilarious: it's revisionist art history, as done by the Photoshop-happy editors of Vogue."

Soooooo wrong.

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and I admit to amazing amounts of laziness with the posting of late.... apologies to my imaginary fans....

Lest We Forget

Not that I wish to taint the naked untarnished hope that lifted every American heart yesterday... I do not want to cast a shadow on those upturned faces... BUT

let us not forget the folly that nearly brought us to our knees.

Or minimize the seriousness of the situation.

We had better remember these lessons.....

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Happy New Year... now lose some weight!

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