CANONS

OF

BEAUTY

What is
beauty in
your
opinion?
How does a
beautiful
woman look
like?

What are
current
trends? What
does beautiful
boy/ girl
mean?

Did the beauty
become a way of
reification
women as an
erotic object?

Who do you like most
and why?

Beauty kanon throw the century:

The prehistoric
period

the person without the outlines

The Egyptian canons of

beauty

Ahmes-Nefertari

the object of a cult of personality and a deity

Cleopatra

When you have make-up - you
honored the gods and called upon
their protection when you anointed
yourself in that way

The Greek beauty:

almost man’s body

The ideal of beauty, virtue,
valor or sacrifice.

The Middle Ages:

The whiteness of a skin symbolized
cleanliness, purity, and also riches
and idleness.

The medieval nymph

The woman should be huge with
a small breast, a wasp waist,
narrow hips and a round tummy.

The Renaissance: returning of

feminity

Three white – a skin, a teeth,
and hands.
Three black – eyes,
eyebrows, eyelashes.
Three red – lips, cheeks,
nails.
Three long – a body, hair and
hands.
Three wide – a thorax, a
forehead, distance between
eyebrows.
Three narrow – a mouth, a
shoulder, a foot.
Three thin – fingers, hair,
lips.
Three roundish – hands, a
torso, hips.
Three small – breasts, a nose
and feet.

The
twenties

Merlin
Monroe

Which
standard of
beauty do you
like most?

Movie about human face: