The Rebirth of Venus

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{
  "name": "The Rebirth of Venus",
  "image": "ipfs://Qmdu1Qiw11bqamWivAs8rijFugmwe5skicZvnfgpnZDK7e",
  "Artist": "Jian-De (Almost Human)",
  "Credits": [
    "Inspired by La nascita di Venere by Sandro Botticelli (1484-1486",
    ")"
  ],
  "License": "All Rights Reserved",
  "mediaType": "image/png",
  "description": [
    "Inspired by The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, The Rebirth",
    " of Venus seeks to examine and challenge cultural defintions of ",
    "\"beauty\" as well as oppressive gender norms.\n\nVenus was the Roma",
    "n goddess of love and beauty, and came to be associated with “",
    "wifely virtues” such as fertility and decency, setting a stand",
    "ard that Roman women were expected to follow.\n\nThese social norm",
    "s are used to control women, restricting their freedom to live t",
    "heir life by their own terms. Many of these norms go far beyond ",
    "mere behavioral prescriptions, positioning inborn traits as fund",
    "amentally superior or inferior to others. Enforcing a narrow and",
    " often impossible standard of beauty and woman-ness that leaves ",
    "many women feeling perpetually unworthy.\n\nDespite being entirely",
    " contrived, these standards are presented as natural - determine",
    "d by some “perfect” divine being, rather than crafted by imp",
    "erfect humans, and therefore immune to challenge.\n\nIt is my firm",
    " belief that the highest calling of art is to challenge injustic",
    "e, yet far too often the most exalted artworks are those which s",
    "erve to perpetuate injustice, defining and maintaining an oppres",
    "sive status quo.\n\nThe Rebirth of Venus is a challenge to cultura",
    "l standards of “beauty” and “decency”, a rejection of so",
    "cial norms that attempt to force humanity into a bland, narrow, ",
    "and uninspired existence.\n\n---Created with Stable Diffusion usin",
    "g multiple custom AI models and extensive inpainting via InvokeA",
    "I"
  ],
  "Artistic Medium": [
    "Human art created digitally with Stable Diffusion based AI art t",
    "ools"
  ]
}