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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Believe it or not there is actually no shortage of art containing women's pubic hair if you just google it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But definitely don't Google Demi Moore bush.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Feature not a bug (for either sex).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

One thing the article doesn't consider is age. What if the ancient artists were intending their subjects to be younger girls than the actual models?

"Youth" in women being idealised then as now, presumably. I don't imagine they had the same issues with girls being under age as we do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That question work for both gender and the answer is, it depens on which artistic mouvment. "La liberté guidant le peuple" is famous the have a bit of armpit hair and "l'origine du monde" while been painting with the clear purpose to choc the public is much hairy.

I never thought restoration have got rid of the hair. If nudity chock you, would you not rather dress people than shaving them? Anyway, restoration even get rid of whole people just because their were not white so...

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Smh

U know how hard it is to carve pubes???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's a mom joke in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This not famous enough sculptor did Bezos solely because he's bad. Er bald.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm so glad he did that crossover with The Slo-Mo Guys and Adam Savage, because that's how I found the soft-spoken batshit insanity of his videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm glad SpruceBringteen posted a link to that video, cause I had never seen any of them... and I'm a bit sold on that thar dumbshit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen plenty of bush in the galleries. Will have to take a closer look in the future

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nooo officer, its really not like that, I was just inspecting for pubes!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might want to read into it some weird sexist agenda, but really, they also had a lot of naked men with realistic penises and no pubes. I'm sure it's cuz those dudes had to shave to make it look bigger, yeah?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well they weren't barbarians!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I took it, sorry. I'll put it back

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Truth is sculpting body hair was taking too much time and production couldn't keep up with demand, so management decided to cut costs and keep it smooth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Men were depicted with pubes, though. See the article, too.
A female friend of mine actually did her bachelor's thesis on body hair removal across certain cultures and time periods. Fun discussions were had.
Short version, body hair removal on both women and men has been around for a very long time and is subject to changes. Depictions of nude bodies follow somewhat different rules, though. If they are at all permissible, that is.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I feel like it might've been painted on for greek-style marble statues? Still unusual for paintings

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One medieval writer even went as far as to claim that if you take the hairs of a menstruating woman and bury them in the garden, a snake will grow from the earth. (If any of our dear readers try this at home, please write in to the ABC with your results).

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's OZ, the chances of there not being a snake in your garden are pretty low.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I only wish I could give it multiple up votes! This made me laugh so hard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

🎼Tell me what happened...🎶

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You know how Roman statues were actually painted bright colors? In ancient times pubes were actually glued onto the groins of sculpted figures, unfortunately with weathering over time most of these sculptures lost their pubes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think it was the renaissance sculptors that did that, not the romans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

One of Ceasar's statue was found to have pigment residues. You can find an image of how it would've looked like when it was painted.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture

Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird, the same thing happened to me

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Your merkin weathered away over time, too?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It did, but people dig that now, so evvs

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Art doesn't grow pubes, jeez 🙄

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Poor Arthur, forever trapped in prepubescence.