YOU’RE NOT PERFECT, AND THAT’S OKAY!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

http://denisesalceda.com/youre-not-perfect-and-thats-okay

Those images are photoshopped and create an unrealistic and warped representation of reality that a lot of young, impressionable people aspire to.

Examples

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. i for one am glad i am not the only person who is aging

[arcane1]

3. Join the club! It's where all the cool kids are these days

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. meh

i dont want to age

[alittlelark]

2. I was shocked by some of those.

I'm sending the link to my daughter.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. yup. one thing is good to know is that people do age and even jessica alba

is not perfect

so why should i bother to be?

[rrneck]

6. It's not new...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polykleitos
Polykleitos consciously created a new approach to sculpture; he wrote a treatise ( Kanon) and designed a male nude (also known as Kanon) exemplifying his aesthetic theories of the mathematical bases of artistic perfection, which motivated Kenneth Clark to place him among "the[ 4] great puritans of art":[ 4] His Kanon "got its name great puritans of art" His Kanon "got its name because it had a precise commensurability[ 5]( symmetria) of all the parts to one another"[ 5] "His( symmetria) of all the parts to one another" "His general aim was clarity, balance, and completeness; his sole medium of communication the naked body of an athlete, standing poised between movement and repose" Kenneth Clark observed.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i think the problem is the ubiquitousness

and the fact that it's only recently actually been exposed

[rrneck]

8. Absolutely.

Knowledge is power.

[Starry Messenger]

13. I don't think heroic sculpture was used to sell beauty products by the billions of dollars.

There is also the issue of mass reproduction of images, which wasn't a problem in ancient Greece. Second, the heroic ideal was a specific genre. Actual portraiture was based in observed details of reality, and while flattering wasn't quite as utopian.

[rrneck]

14. Do you think the average Greek male looked

like that sculpture? Polyklitos kanon was a mathematical set of proportions developed to define physical perfection. It was an almost certainly unattainable ideal, as surely as any photoshopped image today. Both computer software and a chisel perform the same function - the representation of of an ideal divorced from reality and beyond the reach of human achievement.

The Greeks were selling something other than cosmetics. And they did a much better job of it. I believe the Olympics are in London this year.

[Starry Messenger]

15. I don't think you read my post.

[rrneck]

16. Every image is an abstraction.

Vermisillitude is itself an impossible ideal. Art reflects the culture in which it is produced and the technology involved in its production and its utilitarian function are the result of the same human desire to physically manifest an idea. From Lasceaux to photoshopping an image of Jessica Alba the objective is the same.

Perhaps if you make your point more clearly we can proceed further.

[kdmorris]

9. Wow... those were really revealing

I knew they did that... I guess I didn't know how MUCH they did that.

[maddezmom]

10. wow, it's not just the faces it's also the breasts, arms

can't have sort of natural wrinkles.

[justiceischeap]

11. I think Sharon Stone looked better before being "shopped"

but that's just me...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. i think we are wiping out aging in celebs

which is real creepy

[Neoplebe]

17. Airbrushing makes people look kind to creepy to me.

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The concept of perfection renders itself an impossibility as any spectrum of consideration will have at least two opposing perspectives.

Perfection is something powered by instinctively-based intellectualism which limits a persons understanding to finite concepts. As the unwavering truth of the universe and our existence is ever constantly reminding us that chaos reigns, holding to such concepts sacrifices ones potential to experience wondrous discovery.

Why do they call these people celebrities when they are nothing to be celebrated?