Free Writing: Concept of Beauty

For many years, the concept of beauty has been a very difficult issue. People have changed their minds about this concept many times according to their historical context.

I would name some of those historical contexts to support what I am saying. From the Baroque Age, it can be seen that in paintings fat people (especially women) were the chosen models, and the people at that time were delited with those paintings.

During the Romantic Age, beauty had a different concept: there was a subjuctive beauty. The romantic was a person who couldn't involve himself into the society. In fact, there was no objective beauty.

In those days, when Realism and Naturalism were the principal movements, the concept of beauty changed again: being just the opposite as the Romantic Age, everything related to either art or literature was objective.

But, what happens in modern or contemporary days? Say, 60 or 70 (more or less) years ago, the concept of beauty was something completely different to the concept of beauty we have today. Models, especially women, were people neither fat nor thiny. For instance, women like Marilyn Monroe are today considered sexy women who any man would be in love with. But nowadays, models are quite thiny and sometimes we can say that some of them are really skinny.

That's why, in my opinion, we are living a controversy as regards beauty: while there are people who think that Marilyn Monroe is the sexiest and most beautiful woman ever, there are others who think (or at least relate) beautiful women with skinny people.

Photos taken from:

http://www.fotografias.net/wp-content/uploads/marilyn-monroe.jpg

http://www.johnsingersargent.org/The-Wyndham-Sisters.jpg

http://portraitpaintermasters.com/images/ab_reading_on_a_sunlit_afternoon.jpg

http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/1/goya-may-third.jpg

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0506/bobjerry_vermeer_map7.jpg

http://www.unesco.ru/files/cd/clt-museums-mold/img/Italia/05%20i.jpg