Wabi-sabi: defects are better

The idea of the perfect is purely western: the Greeks influenced us with this idea, constantly in search of ideal beauty, between kuros and capitals. Exactly it was the Greek sculptor Polychletus of Argos (5th century BC) who, after having taken measurements of different parts of the body of a certain number of men, came to define certain measures, imposing them as ideals. Polychletus therefore sculpted a perfect but possible body, whose proportions would be supposed by nature.