The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
– Mark Twain (via blua)(Source: quote-book)
Via Iya on Tumblr“Meaning is not something you stumble across nor what someone gives you. You build it through every choice you make, through the commitments you choose, the people you love, and the values you live by.” - Maria Ressa
Art’s great nudes have gone skinny
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.
Is it just me, or did they look fine before?
The point of the piece is to show how beauty is socially constructed. She took paintings of beautiful women from the Italian Renaissance and put our standards of beauty on them. It is to show that women in art/media are getting smaller.
Via X hits the spot
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Fräulein [frɔɪlaɪn] (literally, "little woman" or "little Mrs.") is the German language honorific used for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English. Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which is the honorific for married women only. Fräulein can be translated as Miss in English; Signorina in Italian; Mademoiselle in French; Senhorita in Portuguese; and Señorita in Spanish.
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