La Danseuse aux Sabots [WIP]

A Graceful Posture :

The digital painting La Danceuse aux Sabots is an exercise of Character Design in which I wanted elegance and beauty prevail over the horror or discomfort that some people may feel about anthropomorphism.
But I also especially wanted to play with the censorship of the pre-19th century Academic Nude which idealized purity and beauty only in the representation of glabrous and pale female bodies by rejecting any animal belonging, as the representation of the hair.
I liked this idea of a strongly antagonistic image where the disturbing hair - symbol of bestiality and enemy of the beauty in the representation of the woman in Renaissance Art period - be suggested by the legs of a mare which I intentionally wanted themselves glabrous in order to twist a little more the reasoning.
An anthropomorphism not only frankly anchoring the human in its animality but amplifying also the elegance of a pose.