To: RipSawyer
It's true that overweight bloated humans are a turn off for the most part today - but there have been artistic genres/schools that praised the "voluptuous fleshiness" in past times and even more recently.
![](http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/rubens/RUP006.jpg)
Venus at the Mirror by Rubens
![](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/botero/botero_family.jpg)
Botero: A Family
54 posted on
07/27/2006 12:15:15 PM PDT by
eleni121
(General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
To: eleni121
There is, however, a difference between voluptuous and voluminous.
70 posted on
07/27/2006 12:35:48 PM PDT by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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