Comments on: The Rebirth of Venus http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/ 2007-2010 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: daisy http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54136 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:21:17 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54136 OK That was easier then I thought it would be! lol

http://www.funkyfridge.com/art-renaissance.html

]]> By: daisy http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54135 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:16:00 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54135 I have I guess you’d call it paper doll frig magnet of both Venus and David…they are amazing!! The store I bought them in is no longer there and I’ve moved anyway.

I love them….you get a bunch of clothes to put on them. I’ll google it and see if I can find a site to get them.

]]> By: Linda http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54131 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:54:46 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54131 It’s pretty amazing, when you really think about it, how far off Botticelli’s Venus is from our modern cultural ideal. It is way off. I can just imagine Venus as a present-day celebrity going to the beach in her bikini and the next day there are articles in all the tabloids about how she’s let herself go, and lots of do-gooders tsking that she’s setting a bad example for today’s youth by reveling in her ugly diabetes-craving flesh.

]]> By: Lexy http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54128 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:46:15 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54128 amandaw – that’s what I thought.

]]> By: amandaw http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54108 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:25:10 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54108 tho’ I can see it being interpreted as the body on the shirt already having had the work indicated done. (just showing what was done.)

]]> By: amandaw http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54105 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:21:55 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54105 Yeah, I loved the shirt as soon as I saw it.

But my second thought was, “the ‘original’ figure already matches the crazy insane model figure ideal, without any work.”

Would have been so much the nicer with a more average figure to begin with. Or at least, hell, tracing over the original painting, y’know?

]]> By: Linda http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54103 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:16:16 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54103 “I cut it twice and it is still too short!”

Heh. That’s a good one.

]]> By: Jules http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54102 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:15:51 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54102 No thank you. They’ve done enough “work” to her already. Whatever point they might have made is ruined by they’re refusal to use the strong proportions of the original. They want to make money off of a clever idea and they might think they’re being progressive or body-friendly but the fact is they still decided that the original Venus needed a nip and a tuck before they’d put her on their shirt. And I don’t believe it’s just an artistic choice either. Perhaps we’re supposed to take away from the image that she has already had work done and still needs more, as bookwyrm suggests, but I think that is an overly charitable interpretation and even if it IS the case it’s not made clear enough to ever make me comfortable enough to wear that.

Also, it’s ever so nice to be reminded that if I’m above a 2X I no longer get to be girly. I must lose all traces of femininity and become “unisex”.

Maybe I’m just in a bad mood today or something but I can’t bring myself to love it.

]]> By: jamboree http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54057 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:17:10 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54057 I appreciate the idea behind it, but I can’t get too excited about the image. I don’t like that she’s been slimmed down already, and that she no longer appears to have any muscles. Her legs and arms weren’t just big, they were strong! The Venus on the t-shirt is small and spindly….

]]> By: Jamie http://kateharding.net/2008/05/06/the-rebirth-of-venus/#comment-54046 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:52:04 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/?p=1408#comment-54046 I totally bought one! can’t wait, and shipping was only $5!

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