Each person has ideas about the beauty of the body. For some, lush forms are the standard, while others prefer the clarity of lines. Moreover, the proportions of the body for all people are different and even the greatest minds of all mankind have not yet been able to find the exact formula. Along with changes in the world, the views on the ideal are changing. Let's try to trace how these ideas have changed throughout history.
The first images of a woman belong to the Paleolithic era, it was at that time that the first stone figurines appeared. A short body, a swollen abdomen, hypertrophied breasts, massive hips, small arms and legs - these characteristics testify to the fertility cult of women. However, on
images that relate to the period of Egyptian civilization, women have a slimness, and the ideal of their beauty is represented by a tall, slender brunette who has an athletic physique (broad shoulders, flat chest and hips, long legs).
In the fifth century BC, the sculptor Poliklert developed the canon, a system that described the ideal proportions of the human body. According to his calculations, the head is 1/7 of growth, the hand, face is 1/10, the foot is -1/6. However, the image described by the Greek had rather large and square features, however, these canons became a kind of norm for the ancient period and the basis for artists of the Renaissance. Polyclert embodied his image in the statue of Dorifor, in which the ratio of body parts shows the power of physical strength. The shoulders are wide, practically the same as the height of the body, ½ of the height of the body is the pubic fusion, and the size of the head can be laid 8 times along the height of the body.
The author of the golden rule, Pythagoras, considered ideal the body in which the gap from
toe to waist related to a total length of 1: 3. Recall that according to the
rule of the golden ratio
, the proportional ratio, where the whole refers to its greater part, as well as the larger to the smaller. This rule was used, creating ideal proportions, by such masters as Miron, Praxiteles and others. These ratios were also observed during the embodiment of the masterpiece "Aphrodite of Milos", created by Agesander.
For thousands of years, scientists have been looking for mathematical relationships in human proportions, and for quite some time, the basis of all measurements was individual body parts, for example, the elbow, palms ... Studying ideal proportions, scientists found that the sizes of the bodies of women and men are different, but the ratio of body parts is different to a friend are approximately the same numbers. So, in the middle of the 20th century, a scientist from England - Edinburgh took the musical chord as the basis of the canon of the human body. The ideal proportions of the male body corresponded to a major chord, and the female to minor.
Curious is the fact that the navel of a newborn divides his body into two equal parts. And only then, as it grows, the proportions of the body reach their climax in development, which meets the rule of the golden ratio.
At the end of the 20th century (in the 90s), psychology professor D. Singh, as a result of long research, found a peculiar formula of beauty. According to him, the ideal proportions of the female body are the ratio of the volume of the waist and hips from 0.60 to 0.72. He proved that it is not fat that is important for beauty, but how they are distributed throughout the figure.
Thus, depending on time, era and culture, the ideal proportions of the body were represented by different indicators. Therefore, the question of whether an ideal figure exists remains open.