How Art Made the World - More Human Than Human

The BBC documentary I watched covered how art over the ages has impacted the way we think and how we define an ideal or perfect body. 

In the first segment, the Venus of Willendorf was covered. It's a small figurine of a lady, carved out of stone. The features are rather questionable because many features are over-exaggerated. For example, the breasts and the stomach are enlarged to an impossible extent. 

In the second segment, they covered the artwork done during the Egyptian civilization. The human figures are exaggerated in a weird way- the fingers are all of the same length and the eyes are way too much towards the side. 

In the third segment they covered the sculptures made of the Gods during the Greek Civilization. They were very muscular and the men tried to build  themselves in that way to equate themselves to the Gods and attain Godliness. 

To conclude, I feel that expectations of the body being perfect has been an age old thing, and the ideas have definitely impacted the way we think these days.