Limbless statues.

To gain an understanding on the reaction of body distinctions I have chosen to look into ancient statues. The image above is said to be of Aphrodite of Milos and is an ancient Greek statue created between the dates of 130 and 100 BCE. Aphrodite of Milos is believed to be of a relation of Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty and so is one of the most famous still standing Greek Statues. I didn't really have any particular immediate reaction to the image of the statue other than that I can see that it was ancient Greek artwork which I could tell by the shape of the woman's body, this that it is quite masculine which was how beautiful women were imagined back then. Even though quite obviously the statue has a limb missing, I do not feel any emotional response towards it, I do just simply see the statue as ancient art and a historical artifict

I do look at this piece as an outsider and I also believe that the creator of the statue also took an outsider approach due to the piece being based on beauty (The name Aphrodite meaning beautiful). Due to this the artist sculpting a raw view of beauty, objectifying the view of women simply being subjects of beauty and sex (Topless, stripped away, no personality shown). I do believe that if I take aspects of art into my own work I possibly will be able to disgise objectification and so minimlise the reaction.