This lovely purple piece by the American artist Jeff Koons
popped up this week on one of the general interest websites I visit. Red is the
favorite color of my adulthood, but, as a child, purple was always my favorite,
and my eye is always drawn to that color.
The Koons piece is currently display at the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford. I reminded me of the pictures I’ve seen of the Venus of Willendorf,
and indeed, the author of the
not very flattering article in The
Guardian did mention that ancient statue.
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| The Venus of Willendorf |
I’ve always smiled when I saw pictures of that Venus and
others like her – they remind me of me. Though our proportions are bountifully bulbous,
they can truthfully be called classical.
Though current standards would have us be sylphlike, and
health-wise it would be wiser for us to be more slender, we women of substance
can smile and accept ourselves. We can say “I’m all right.”
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| Women en large |
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