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“I Like Big Butts and I Cannot Lie”

Art has always had a soft spot for the human form, but if there’s one part that’s consistently found itself in the spotlight (or should we say, moonlight?), it’s the bottom. From ancient times to modern masterpieces, artists have never shied away from giving the backside its due. So, let’s take a stroll through history and see how this often-overlooked feature has made its mark (sometimes quite literally) on the world of art.

Ancient Rear-angements: Bottoms as Icons

Long before Instagram made the booty a cultural obsession, ancient artists were already crafting some serious behind-the-scenes magic. The Venus figurines, plump and proud, celebrated the bottom as a symbol of fertility and abundance. Fast forward to ancient Greece, where statues like “Venus Callipyge” didn’t just leave things to the imagination-they put the derrière front and centre. Clearly, these ancient sculptors understood that when it comes to art, a well-rounded bottom is worth its weight in marble.

Renaissance: The Bottom Renaissance (or Re-bottom-sance?)

As the Renaissance dawned, artists began to study the human form with the kind of dedication usually reserved for solving Rubik’s cubes. Michelangelo and Raphael took a good, hard look at anatomy, and the bottom emerged as a key player in their masterful creations…