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The Birth Of Venus in art (details) by François Boucher (1740), Henri Pierre Picou (1874), Sandro Botticelli (1485), William Adolphe Bouguereau (1879), Nicolas Poussin (1635 or 1636), Alexandre Cabanel (1863)

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Keith Vaughan painting

[theartistandthephotographer]

My collection of pressed flowers from this summer 🌸🍃🌼

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Elisabeth Maille | See more of her work

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whyn Lewis

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An 8 million dollars Monet painting after a man punched it. The guy got 6 years in prison for this.

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Interior (Model Reading) - Edward Hopper

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[secretlesbians]

Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.

Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

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From foot-binding to waist binding to breast binding, ideal beauty often requires deforming of the natural body. From clitoridectomy to breast enlargement or reduction to surgically altered noses, ideal beauty often requires mutilation of the natural body. From hair dyeing to face painting to necessary ornamentation (for instance, high-heeled shoes), ideal beauty often requires distortion or denial of the natural body. Ranging from idiocy to atrocity, any and all strategies are employed so that the natural female body will fit the male idea of ideal female beauty.

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (via realbookofmorgan2)