Karen Taylor
and Dr. Nancy Etcoff confer to produce the universal face
of “beauty”
At the request of Dr. Nancy
Etcoff, a professor of neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School, Karen
drew the idealized face of “beauty” for a television
feature production entitled Survival of the Prettiest.
California-based Termite Art Productions developed the hour-long
program for the Discovery Channel, based on Dr. Etcoff’s book
of the same name. Dr. Etcoff conferred with Karen to arrive at a
universal “template face” of beauty in conjunction with
Etcoff's belief that physical attraction is innate and biologically-based
rather than learned behavior.
Taylor's template
face fits classic beauties Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Halle
Berry, Lucy Lui and Vanessa Williams