Comments on: Fat women in art: example the first

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By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:13:25 +0000

Passing through and wanted to tell you I enjoyed my stay

By: Big Girls in Art: Woman with Mango » Manolo for the Big Girl!

Big Girls in Art: Woman with Mango » Manolo for the Big Girl! — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:27:33 +0000

[...] week, several readers of Manolo for the Big Girl commented on the art, and we discovered that different readers had vastly different interpretations of the painting (but [...]

By: Hester

Hester — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:07:38 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful link to inexpensive prints! I’m moving into my first house soon, and am thinking of asking some people to peruse the site for something I might like….

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:47:34 +0000

I happen to have a reproduction of Picasso’s The Dreamer in my living room. She of the 6 fingers, the lumpy squishy arms, the ample bosums, and full rounded face. I look at my other art and in not one of my pieces do I see protruding hip bones, stretched skin over ribs like zylophones, or the cheeks so hollowed that the face looks mummified. My statue of Pallas Athena actually has a rounded stomach behind her sword and shield. I was reading a 19th century novel that described the heroine’s dimpled elbows. The skeletal works of art tend to represent horrors and the despair while women with some flesh represent beauty….

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:42:13 +0000

Probably everyone has already seen this video Women in Art on YouTube. If not, I think it's well worth a few minutes of your time.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:19:38 +0000

Oh, how Francesca loves to see how different people interpret the same painting! That is what makes it, truly, a work of art.

By: kimocean

kimocean — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:54:58 +0000

I don’t think there’s a wrong and a right Toby. I’ve always thought the woman was pregnant and that the mirror was her worried self, her dark thoughts about what is possible in the future. I like Francesca’s interpretation though. There are days when what I see in the mirror is certainly distorted. Funnily enough though I think there are also days when what I see in the mirror has a bit of extra glamour added.
~Kim

By: Toby Wollin

Toby Wollin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:56:21 +0000

Oh, I guess I had it all wrong. I thought that the young girl was visualizing the much older version of herself in the mirror.