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The Sculpted Man: Unattainable Beauty

Image Analysis YUJIA HUANG T2220047 Module: Communication and Message Module Leader: Sarah Lewington Ref. no: FASH20031 Words: 982

This photograph is a fine art image The Sculpted Man: Unattainable Beauty(figure 1). It is a context from the Leonardo da Vincis publicationsThe Vitruvian Man(figure 2). The rendering Vitruvian Man that completed in 1487 is two different methods: than other circle and square image cover another top forms an image. And it has shown the human bodys golden ratio (Toby, 2011).

Figure 1:The Sculpted Man: Unattainable Beauty(2012)BY Dacies, R., Austin, H.S., Hindmarch,E., Stones, M., HUANG, Y.

Figure 2: The Vitruvian Man (1487) by Leonardo da Vinci

The charm of this sketch lies between the abstract geometry and observed the interaction of physical reality. Although in this image, line has only been painted on the main parts of the human body, it has already produced beautiful outline and brawniness. This man's feet actually seem to be on the square hemline above, or rejected in circular arc on. These two position give the person a kind of feeling like sports which has a sense of movement, perhaps, it could be certain gymnastics athlete's action, which is actually a people in bobs arms, moving like a bird flapping wings. The human bodylines are clear and contracted, however face processing are somewhat different. Face painting has to be more profound, the shadow gives the picture a rich dramatic effects, and it is present on the front face within glare. And this image shows the bodyline and shape clearly. In traditional western arts, nude images are commonly used to show human body performance(Fred, 2008). According to research, history of male nude art images has very long history, whereas female nude art images has appeared since the 4th century B.C. Angela said: Unlike men, women did not appear naked in public, and except for the depiction of prostitutes in archaic vase painting, the female nude does not appear even in Greek art until the late fourth century B.c. (Angela,Z., 1994: Online) Compare with recent history, male body art is always the main performance of the object in history, and only in the 19th century women has to become the main form of nude arts(Robyn, R.,2011). In western art history, artists not only obsessed with real human body beauty, but also emphasizes the pursuit of an ideal beauty. Clark said this from the ancient Greek tradition developed after Renaissance has been to modern beauty is a myth, is a typical, "" The Vitruvian Man" regulate body become European belief highest symbol and is not an accident." Andrej Pejic(figure 3) who is a very famous male model can wear female clothing and can be very well presenting them. And he has fashion shoots published onWonderland ,Vogue the French edition, I D and other fashion magazine. And also for the female underwear took promotional material, before that people never thought that men could deduce female underwear commercials. Male and female body are completely different, although it is for sure that Andrej is a man, he also can be great to show the females feelings. So male body also can present about female body, there is no conflicts at all.

Andrej Pejic Models for Women's Underwear Campaign (2012)By known:Website

So in this image, the denotation means a male model with the black tape. The body has toughness and flexibility of muscle and has face is looking steadily ahead within glare, same as that in The Vitruvian Man. About Connotation, it was aimed to use the male to present about both male and female bodylines at the same time in combination of the both, and focus on a well-defined body. This image used the black tape on the male models body to show the female body curve. This reflected their different lines and different curvaceous. Around this image, it is a photo of people that the man is a protagonist. This image just has a modal in there not have anything else and the models upper body covers nearly the whole image. The photographer took this image was a front of the model, it can be seen the modals face which is a looking steadily ahead within glare. The image gets extra visual effects by making the whole picture out of the same atoms, and it is the modal. And the black tape that is on the modals body, which was used to show the female s body curve, can be comparing with male and female body different. This image was taken in the studio, so there cannot be the sunlight. The main source of light on the subject came from 45 degrees above and in front of the modal. The strong light gives a clear distinction between the light and shade of the modal, showing clear line. The image shows that the modal has truly skins. And through the simple white background, it highlights the model from the background, and with the background together, while the background not disturbing the line of sight of people. It is catching the peoples eyes to focus on the model itself. Black and white, it is the main tone of this image, ruled out gorgeous colors interference, makes the viewer's attention focused on image language. This kind of photos often do not have rich plots and gorgeous color, make people feeling mysterious and serious, and a little bit glare. The male nude shows the bodylines, and it gives the image has a strong visual power. The areas of the light are more than shade, so the shades parts become more highlighted, such as that seen in the modals eyes. People will be paying more attention to the modals face, so the emotion will be enhanced, giving a much stronger feeling. About this image, it is a black and white close-up human photograph that is gets the idea from The Vitruvian Man and famous modal Andre Pejic. The image through the black tape on the male body then presents male and female bodylines, and shows they are different curve. The visual impact brought along by the hidden artistic tension in this image, shows the beauty is the bodylines and perfect ratio.

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List of Illustrations Figure 1: The Sculpted Man: Unattainable Beauty(2012)By Dacies, R., Austin, H.S., Hindmarch,E., Stones, M., HUANG, Y. : Own Image Figure 2: The Vitruvian Man (1487) by Leonardo da Vinci: Websit Figure 3: Andrej Pejic Models for Women's Underwear Campaign(2012)By known in modelinia:Website

List of Citaions (Angela, Z., 1994: Online)

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