Anna Giordano's Venus project

Naomi Wolf discusses the concept of beauty in the U.S. and claims that it is culturally created and has very specific effects on society, women in particular. The Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has found a way to make a similar argument visually. She has taken several famous European paintings, each depicting the artist's ideal of feminine beauty, and Photoshopped them to match a more contemporary ideal. You can read an article about the project here. You can view all the images on the artist's website here.