Being Gay

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David's beauty is uninfluenced by personality, because David has no personality.

[MENTION=21558]Emiliano[/MENTION], I have to bring out an exception to this. Even though mostly this is true, in some minds lack of personality can actually correlate as 'perfect' personality. It draws associations to cleanliness and purity, even though they are not there in the sculpture itself in any recognizable form.

He is a clean slate, and some people do imagine him to also possess certain qualities of character that reflect even better on him (because you would not imagine a 500-year-old renaissance masterpiece of art to have been a deviant character. Although he might have been!!). Some minds project qualities onto him that they associate with more beautiful personalities in their mind.

In this case, they actually are perceiving David in terms of physical and internal beauty, although it is usually not conscious, and although it is fake.


PS. For a thought exercise: imagine that the model for David was a petty thief chanced upon on the street during one of his nighttime prowls; he had a woman whose modest income he used up on drinking and paying for prostitutes, he beat his dog and broke its leg because the animal chewed on his shoe... I'm not sure it's 100% possible to do (since David is so deeply within our subconsciousness as a concept on its own), but give it a try. How do you like the statue now?