Obituary

Da Vinci's diagram of perfect proportions became the internet's image of the human body as a flexible, stretchable, deeply imperfect machine — arms and legs akimbo, trying to touch four corners at once. It died when 'ideal proportions' stopped being a goal and started being a punchline.

Portrait: Paris Orlando · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2013

Died

2019

Cause of death

Failed us all as an ideal

Last sighting

A gym's logo, 2019

Resting place

Section D, Row 1

Category

art