Pierre Paul Rubens The Three Graces

seriously ill and died in Antwerp in 1640. Pierre Paul Rubens was essentially known for his naked woman representations. “The Three Graces” for example is an interesting painting he made since it reflects the ideal image of the woman at that time. “The Three Graces” was made around 1635, it is an oil painting which is made out d the three primary colors yellow, blue and red. The art piece measures 220.5 cm x 182 cm and is now located in the “Museo del Prado, Madrid.” As it can be seen on figure 9, the painting represents three goddesses and daughters of Jupiter in the service of Venus, the goddess of love. All three are naked, plump, two being seen by three-quarters and one from the back. Rubens has shown them next to a fountain under a garland of flowers and a landscape background. The faces, round and imbedded, are inspired by classical sculpture, arms and calves are thick. The color and light variations accentuate the beauty of the bodies and the contrast between the landscapes of the background. After analyzing this painting, a conclusion can be drawn that at that time, the perception of beauty for woman from Western Europe, was shown when they would be plump and what we call now overweight. The reason why, was because “women with some meat on their bones, were also women who could afford meat on their plates”.
He was born in October 1881 in Malaga-Spain. At a very young age, he started to already drawing with his father which was a drawing professor. Pablo Picasso decided to study in the school of fine-arts in Barcelona and in 1904 decided to leave Barcelona, to go and live in France. There, he meets Braque, with whom they invent Cubism. In 1925, he participates to his first surrealistic exposition in Paris. Throughout the Second World War, he returned to work in Paris until the war is done; he then lived back in the south of France, and died in April 1973 near