COLLABORATIVE AESTHETIC GUIDE
B.I.S. ERASMUS+ PROJECT / INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP 9
FACT SHEET
Title: Hero and Leander
Artist: Mongrobejo, Nemesio
Technique: Sculpture, melt bronze
Period: 1904, firts half of the twenty century
Style: academic realism
DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTWORK
This work represents the young Hero and Leander, the protagonists of a myth reported by Ovid in the Heroides (and that will be later taken up by Dante in canto XXVIII).
Legend has it that Leandro, in love with Hero, crossed the strait of the Hellespont every night by swimming. The young woman held a light to guide him to her; one evening, however, a storm blew out the light and Leander died in the waves. The work portrays the moment in which the bodies of Hero and Leander are lying on the beach; the young woman would have later taken her own life by throwing herself from a tower.
"Hero and Leander" is a bronze sculpture of 56x213x111 cm made in 1904 by Nemesio Mongrobejo Abásolo.
The nakedness of the two subjects of this sculpture exudes canons of beauty lost with the decaying of Classical art: Leander has the attributes of an Olympic athlete, tense muscles and defined in an unnatural pose, Hero instead has soft and round shapes. The tragic beauty of premature death is well conveyed by the sense of abandonment of the composition and by the slab that bends over them transforming into waves.
ANALISYS OF THE ARTWORK
1-Gender of the character: male and female
2-Body size: curvy
3.-Height of the character: medium
4.-Body proportion of the character: well-proportioned
5.-Age of the character: youth
6. -Hair colour of the character:/
7. - Hair style of the character: Loose
8. - Skin colour of the character:/
9.- Clothing of the character: naked
10. – Could you establish the somatotype of the character? Mesomorphic.
Comparison with the beauty canon of the 21century
The beauty canon of the sculpture diverges a lot from the beauty canon of today. The female body is really curvy with large thigh, and a soft belly, while the male body is unrealistically muscular. Nowadays the beauty canon prefers thin women who have slim thigh, a small waist and a large breast; while prefers men who are muscular and healthy. Therefore, the male canon of the statue is really similar to the beauty standards of today, even if it represents an unrealistic muscular body.
Analisis de los cánones esteticos
2.-Tamaño corporal / complexión del personaje: atlético
3.-Altura del personaje: media
4.-Proporción física del personaje: bien proporcionado
5.-Edad del personaje: Joven
6. –Color del pelo del personaje:/
7. – Tipo de peinado del personaje: suelto
8. – Color de piel del personaje:/
9.-Vestimenta del personaje: desnudo
10. – Somatotipo del personaje?: mesomorfo
Los personajes que aparecen en la obra presentan cuerpos atléticos, curvilíneos y bien proporcionados. Los músculos son muy evidentes gracias al claroscuro conseguido por el juego de luces. El somatotipo de ambos es mesomorfo.
Comparación de los cánones estéticos
El canon de belleza del siglo XX presentaba cuerpos irreales con mas curvas y músculos más definidos. A día de hoy el canon del hombre es parecido, pero en la escultura aparece idealizado volviéndose irreal. Por el contrario, el canon de belleza de la mujer ha experimentado una mayor variación, pues hoy en día está de moda un cuerpo femenino más delgado.
Kanon estetikoen analisia
2.-Gorputzaren neurria / pertsonaiaren gorpuzkera: atletiko
3.-Pertsonaiaren altuera: ertain
4.-Pertsonaiaren gorputz-proportzioa: proportzionatu
5.-Pertsonaiaren adina: gazte
6.- Pertsonaiaren ile kolorea:/
7. – Pertsonaiaren orrazkera: solte
8. – Pertsonaiaren azal kolorea:/
9.- Pertsonaiaren janzkera: biluzik
10. – Pertsonaiaren somatotipoa: mesomorfo
Bi pertsonaiek gorputz atletiko, oso proportzionatu, gihartsu eta lerromakur dituzte.
Ezaugarri hauek somatotipo mesomorfo bati dagozkie.
Kanon estetikoen konparaketa
XX. mendeko kanonak gorputz irrealak eta gihartsuak definitzen zituen. Gaur egun gizonezko kanona antzekoa da. Hala ere, eskulturaren gizonezko kanona gaur egungokoarekin konparatuta antzekoa da, agian pizka bat irrala. Emakumezko kanona, berriz, gehiago aldatu da eta egun emakume argalena daukagu eredu.
Analisi dell'opera
2.-dimensione del corpo: sinuoso
3.-altezza dei personaggi: media
4.-proporzione corporea: armonica
5.-colore dei capelli: scuri
6.-stile di capelli: sciolti
7.-carnagione: abbronzata, scura
8.-vestiti: nudi
9.-età: giovani
10.- somotipo: mesoformo
Confronto con il cannone di bellezza del XXI secolo
ANALYSE VAN HET KUNSTWERK
2) lichaamstype: volslank
3) grootte van het personage: medium
4) lichaam proportie van het personage: goed
5) leeftijd van het personage: jong
6) haarkleur van het personage: donker
7) haarstijl van het personage: los en warrig
8) huidskleur van het personage: gekleurd, donker
9) kleren van het personage: naakt
10) somatotype: mesomorph
VERGELIJKING TUSSEN DE SCHOONHEIDSIDEALEN
ANAYLSER DES CANONS DE BEAUTÉ
- Sexe: masculin et féminin
- Type du corps: courbée
- Hauteur du personage: medium
- Proportions du corps: bons
- Age: jeune
- Couleur des cheveux: foncés
- Style des cheveux: lâches et désordonnés
- Couleur du peau: coloré, foncé
- Vêtements: nue
- Somatotype: mésomorphe