A bit of a rant

Now, first of all, I haven’t been updating in so long because I’m quite busy with school. Second of all, I need to make this update because I am absolutely furious and frustrated about this issue. Google has recently deemed Femme Femme Femme as ‘inappropriate’. This blog is a wonderful art blog, celebrating the female form in art. Google saw that many of the works posted are of nude women so it unrighteously slapped this term on it! This blog is unique in its way that it celebrates all sorts of female body shapes in contrary to the the mass of fashion blogs that are posting nothing but gazelle-like, woman with thin stem-like legs and endless limbs. Personally, I am a fan of these women, they’re so unnatural in their presence and amazingly elegant (though not all..) but I also love women who seem to have stepped right out of a Rembrandt.

Rubens – Three Graces

And why shouldn’t I? Why shouldn’t I love their cellulite? Why can’t I be proud of my flabby arms, my stubby legs and my non-existing breasts that are such a big contrast with my full thighs? I feel that Femme Femme Femme is such a wonderful relief compared to our Special K commercials and anti-ageing ads and I feel cheated and personally offended that it has been flagged with inappropriate content! Oi, let’s celebrate the female body here then?

Eduard J. Steichen – In Memoriam

I absolutely love how this photo makes the female body something abstract and how everything here revolves around the composition rather than anything else.

Though quite unrealistic I feel that Cranach really understands the elegance of women.

This sketch by Klimt is actually called ‘fat woman seen in frontal aspect’. Here you can see that woman who are deemed ‘fat’ can also be gorgeous.

Another gorgeous Klimt sketch.

These are the works I think about when I think of a great use of female nude in art.