2nd TERM PROJECT 4 ESO 2015/16

BEAUTY CANONS: BODY CULT AND THE SEARCH FOR

THE PERFECT APPEARENCE.

GROUP 1: vigorexia or Adonis complex

1. Vigorexia versus usual practice of physical activity. Advantages

and disadvantages.
2. Disorders that can be caused in our body (nutritional, metabolic,
in the nervous system )
3. Prevention and treatment.
4. Ethical aspect: analyse the image of man, based on strength and muscle
and explain its negative aspects.
5. Comment on man's image of beauty in antiquity and today using this
picture (golden canon).

Apoxiomenos by Lyssipos.

GROUP 2: Anorexia and bulimia

1. Disorders that can be caused in our body (nutritional, metabolic,

in the nervous system )
2. Prevention and treatment.
3. Ethical aspect: analyse how society dictates how womens
bodies should look. Explain why the search for the perfect body
is impossible.
4. Discuss the current obsession with thinness with respect to the image
of female beauty in the Modern Age using this picture.

The Three
Graces, by Rubens.

GROUP 3: tobacco (cigarettes) and alcohol as a canon of beauty in adolescence.

1. Harmful effects:
a. On the nervous system.
b. On the digestive system: stomach, liver, pancreas.
c. On the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
2. Ethical aspect:
a. Analyse the mental consequences of these substances.
b. Analyse the behaviour of people who take these substances in
the short and long term.
3. Discuss the role of alcohol in other historical periods using this picture.

Bacus, by Caravaggio (Uffizi).

GROUP 4: Mass-media: misleading advertising.

 1. Analysis of advertising products that promote healthy eating
(actimel, bifidus, fibers ... Biomann) or elements used to improve
lifestyle (machines that will improve muscle strength effortlessly,
electro-stimulation ....).
2. Ethical aspect: Reflect on the models appearing in ads, why are
these men and women unreal?
Analyze the image they convey: focus on perfect bodies and faces.
3. Discuss the use of advertising to sell a product in the twentieth
century, the idea of a family advocate nation.

Nazi billboard.

GROUP 5: The standards of beauty since antiquity

1. Study how the concept of beauty has changed from ancient times to the
present day, analyzing it in different arts like painting, sculpture...

2. Ethical aspect: Reflect on the image of women in today's world, where only
their beauty and body are important.

Venus of Willendorf

GROUP 6: Anti-aging treatments: an alternative beauty

1. Analysis of the obsession of a part of society with preventing the passing of

time.
2. Cases of cosmetic surgery in adolescents.
3. Facial-treatments, ultrasound, plants, stones ... Advertising: true or false?
4. Ethical aspect: Reflect on the image of man in the twenty-first century,
increasingly concerned with aesthetics and fashion. Is man more feminine? Do
you think it's good that man should be concerned about their appearance
as much as women?

DEADLINE: 4 ESO A & B: Thursday 18th February (to Julia, Juan Miguel, Fernando and
Carmen)

PRESENTATION: 4 ESO A: Thursday 25th February, 1st period.

4 ESO B: Thursday 25th February, 4th period.