Unreasonable standards of beauty, much?
Take Part photo editor Lauren Wade wanted to make a point about the way that the excessive use of Photoshop permeates our conceptions of beauty.
Here, for example, with Francisco Goya's Nude Maya, she whittled the waist, hips and thighs to match today's notions of attractiveness.
Explained Wade, "We’ve taken a digital liquefy brush to the painstakingly layered oils of some of the most celebrated paintings of the female form, nipping and tucking at will. There may be something sacrilegious in that, but the same could be said for our contemporary ideas of beauty."
Lauren Wade/Take Part
On Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, she added bigger boobs and a tinier waist.
Lauren Wade/Take Part
Paul Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women, were slimmed down and also given boob jobs.
Lauren Wade/Take Part
Raphael's Three Graces were shrunken down to half their size.
Lauren Wade/Take Part
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