That's why they are called jugs hehe.

yeah that would make some sense .. still the thought of the flutes tee hee

This conversation makes me think of the old masters' paintings of nude women, done by men who had never seen a naked woman and were just extrapolating what a real female breast would look like. I'll see if I can find one to post here for you in case you can't remember high school art classes. Did you guys know that Michelangelo never saw a naked woman his whole life? Some of his renditions of the naked female body are quite strange.



Michelangelo's version of the naked female form.

Note how on Eve, she has a male's body with a couple of boobs plopped on her front. So funny! Not that I'm making fun of the great master, but you'd have thought these guys might have asked for a nude model or something, non? They all did, however, know the male form very, very well.

And another lousy looking nude lady by Albrecht Durer 1504

Did this guy ever see a naked woman? Anyway, good thing nobody ever made a champagne glass from this gal's boobs.

-- Edited by KaeEll at 10:59, 2008-01-01

Many of the old masters were not interested in looking at naked ladies.

Peter Paul Rubens liked looking at naked ladies.



Shoot - link went all prissy on me. Scroll down to "Andromeda" in the images list. Larger image can be accessed by clicking on the small pic.



-- Edited by KaeEll at 00:44, 2008-01-02

I took Art 101 in college but never knew that about Michaelangelo! I couldn't believe the muscles on that woman! You'd think he could have guessed a woman is more petite based on how clothing fit?!

The old masters studied anatomy for musculature and all that, but they studied male form and drawings. And if you'd never SEEN or touched a naked female, had no desire to do so, then why would anyone think they'd be built so differently? It's naive, yes, but without any knowledge, and if all your teachers were also of the same persuasion.... .

I'm sure that if someone had taken Michelangelo, for example, by the hand, and led him to a live nude posing for artists, he's have been extremely interested in noting all the differences, and it would have been reflected in his art. But nobody ever did.

Interestingly, he drew clothed women very well, as no doubt he had seen plenty of them. Remember, back then women wore loose, drape-y clothes. There was no spandex at the time, no minis, no tube tops, nothing revealing at all, except for some low bodices, and the clothes were in multiple layers.


Titian was married and a father. See the difference?

-- Edited by KaeEll at 12:53, 2008-01-02

I think I miss teaching art.

I could never teach anything as I hate standing in front of more then one person and speaking. Though i had wanted to take a drawing class for my art appreciation class but wound up having to take a music class that was less then fun. I think drawing would have been funner.