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Abstract I am going to talk about my illustration subjects that based on women, female body, female issues and how I want to develop them in a fun but teasing way. Also I will give hints about references from body representation including Ancient Greek, Medieval and Renaissance periods and 19th, 20th centuries through history. Regarding illustration and women representation, I will look for Pin-Up Girls and visual transformation of female body from illustration to photography. Objectification of female body will lead me to talk about body politics and Michel Foucault’s Biopolitics. On the other side, satire drawings in the history, cynical art will be discussed during the background survey.  Introduction I will mention that female body and wrong public discourses, taboos are my topics to draw about. My works aim to show how we are affected by public norms directly.  My personal and artistic approach opposes admitted facts of beauty. I prefer drawing chubbiness, plu

The Classical Period in art covers the Greek and Roman culture. Classical Greek art is generally recognized as a visual depiction of the ideal and the real. Figures look perfect, faces are calm and without emotion, bodies look active and they are often nude. Although Ancient Greek art is divided into Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic, the common feature of all is that men are strong and confident and women are shy and innocent. While female sculptures were clothed or draped in togas, males were sculpted carefully till the hair of their genitals.  Most scholars shun the idea that a realistic pubis was seen as aesthetically unappealing, and the most prominent theories today center around female genitalia being viewed as sexually aggressive. Women being aggressive, let alone sexually aggressive, was heavily discouraged and punished in Greek society. * The fact that male nudity is very common alongside female nudity reflects Greek ideas on gender. For a man to appear naked was se