Part 1

The idealized body can be different things depending on whom you ask this question too. For example in the picture Leigh under the Skylight the person is very overweight, bald, and even naked, but this is a full body portrait that the artist says talks about their personality. This meaning that the artist must of that it was the idealized body during that time in society. Now in the Male Torso in the African shows details of the torso area. This must have been showing contrast to the torso to define the way they look to the outside world and how they thought the torso should look. Although I don’t think that there will ever be a perfect body due to the fact that everyone will have their own opinion and the world will always be changing so different figures will look better in different periods of time. Another example of this would be how in midevil times that if you was fat it was good it meant royalty and wealth, but now days if you are fat it is considered bad because of what is shown to the world. They find skinny people more attractive with the “idealized” body. There are many different cultures that have different meanings for their body parts such as Africans found that neck and the head was the most important body parts to them. Then with Leigh under the Skylight show full body pictures so this takes part of their character and the way they act for what is important to them. Then in other cultures in the South Pacific they had tattoos on their body to show life forces and ritual knowledge about the tribe or that person. Something meaningful to them would be the eye. The reason why I say this is because when they have tattoos of eyes on them it represented as more power and they thought it meant that it would decrease their vulnerability due to the fact that it will help them see more things around them. Things that are important to us today are things like body, personality, and physical appearances. Today’s society is very stricts and extreamly judgemental to how people look. One thing that I can say is that people will judge overweight people in the world now days due to the fact that they think they are slops and ugly. Due to the fact that TV, magazines, and shows that portray people being skinny and tall for modeling makes the world think that this is the idealized figure for the modern generation. Another thing that does that makes people want it is the fame, respect, and popularity that the people get with this modeling gig. Just because the world thinks this don’t mean you have to I personally don’t think that people like that are attractive but its just my opinion which really don’t matter. Everyone has their own opinion and that’s just mine you may have something different just like everyone does.