There has been a lot of controversy behind the use of Photoshop—some argue that it makes women appear more beautiful, while others have described it as ‘faux beauty’.
Joining in the argument is Take Part senior photo editor Lauren Wade, who believes that the excessive use of Photoshop has altered our perception of beauty.
To point this out, she has taken some famous paintings from the Renaissance and Impressionist periods and imagined what they would look like if the women in them were photoshopped.
She wrote, “Throughout art history, painters from Titian to Rubens to Gauguin found beauty in the bodies of women who would never fit into a size 0. But what would these famous works of art look like were they to conform to today’s Photoshopped standards of beauty?”
“We’ve taken a digital liquefy brush to the painstakingly layered oils of some of the most celebrated paintings of the female form, nipping and tucking at will. There may be something sacrilegious in that, but the same could be said for our contemporary ideas of beauty.”
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[via Buzzfeed, images via Take Part and Wikipedia Commons]