I visited the art gallery this month they are featuring Larry Kirkwood’s Body Image Project. The purpose of this exhibit to to help people understand that it’s who we are on the inside that makes us beautiful. The first thing I saw when I walked into the gallery was a big piece of cardboard with pictures from magazines and people who visited made comments about them. Overall, everyone who commented stated that beauty that we see in magazines is not real. The people in the magazines send the message that you aren’t beautiful if you don’t look like them. But in reality beauty is whatever you see it as, not how you look.
This exhibit shows that beauty is found in all shapes and sizes, not just one shape and size. As I continued to walk around I saw all different body shapes. Each of them were beautiful in their own way. There was one body of a woman who was 56 years old. Her chest was not that of a ‘normal’ woman because her breast implants leaked, and left indentations in her chest. There was another woman who had one breast removed and wanted to be a part of this art because she wanted to offer hope to those who are going through breast cancer.
After I left the exhibit I went to the artists website, he has pictures of some of the bodies he’s caste d and why each of them is beautiful. Also on the website he has his mission of this project. He says his mission is to ‘ give you a more honest and healthy view of who we really are physically.’ As an example of that there is a model who, in the past was bulimic. She still thinks shes fat, but now she has a more realistic view of what she looks like. One man stated that the media is trying to make people feel ugly and disgusting. One of his examples was a few years ago he saw a shampoo commercial on tv.
The Essay on Chinese People Skin Beauty Eyes
Since I have been here for a couple of days, I do find some differences between Chinese people and New Zealanders. The most interesting one is the different way the two country! s people see beauty. Now this is really a funny example. Chinese people see big, double-eyelid ed eyes as good-looking symbols.And a big nose makes face looked more curvaceous. But it seems that western people tend to pay ...
A man was in an elevator and noticed he had a few dandruff flakes on his shoulder. In disgust, he went home and washed his hair with dandruff shampoo. The commercial went on to say that ninety nine percent of Americans have dandruff. In a way that commercial and many other like it are telling its viewers that they are gross. Overall, I feel that this exhibit is very thought provoking. We need to realize that what we see in magazines and on tv is not a true view of what beauty is.
Beauty is in all shapes, sizes, ages, and ethnic backgrounds.
