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#bodypositivity

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

While the fashion industry seemed to have been moving towards more body inclusivity (recognising that the pressure on models - an by extension customers - to be ultra thin was socially corrosive), the combination of weight-loss drugs & the attack on 'woke' (with which the body positivity movement was associated) seem to have engendered a backlash against plus-size models....

As so often, social advances for any maligned group are precarious!

#fashion #BodyPositivity

theguardian.com/fashion/2025/a

The Guardian · ‘Ozempic arrived and everything changed’: plus-size models on the body positivity backlashBy Emine Saner
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Fine Art (Nude)?

Adolescence (1932) - Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

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When Brockhurst was thirty-eight years old, he was appointed a Visitor to the Royal Academy Schools. It was at this time that he met the sixteen-year-old artist’s life model Kathleen Woodward. Brockhurst was immediately besotted by this youthful and exuberant beauty and she was to become his lifelong model and even though she, his muse, was just sixteen years of age and he was thirty-eight, the two soon became lovers. He renamed her Dorette. which is of Greek origin and means “gift”. This renaming of one’s muse was similar to what his fellow artist and friend, Augustus John had done, when he named his lover and muse, Dorothy McNeil, Dorelia.

His new muse Dorette appeared in many paintings and etchings by Brockhurst but the one people remember the most was his audacious, some would say salacious, while others postulated that it was his greatest print masterpiece – Adolescence, which he completed in 1932. In the depiction we see his mistress, Woodward, then nineteen years of age, sitting on a stool in front of her dressing table mirror.

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#Art #CreativePhotography #FineArtPhotography #ModelPhotography #BodyPositivity #ArtisticExpression #BeautyInArt #FashionPhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BWPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #bnw #cloudflareFree #arthistory

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