The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

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such as Botticelli? And how would we compare it to other female artists depictions of naked female figures? You said that the girls featured in the series described the shootings as “liberating sessions”. Could you give us any insights on the behind-the-scenes of In Her Rooms ? Of course, we cannot forget the painting The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet, which caused a scandal with the public and at the Salons in 1866. Without censorship, it represents the female vagina. Courbet rejected academic painting and its idyllic, idealized versions of the nude. His painting always challenged the limits of the presentable. 5. Impressionism: The Women Nude in all its splendor Since the 1990s, Amer’s work has explored the policing of the female body – its sexual urges, its size and shape, its rights to exposure or concealment. Using stereotypically “feminine” media, she has transformed pornographic imagery in joyous explosions of coloured embroidery and spelt out feminist tenets in floral planters. Since the Modern period, the nude painting has essentially evoked the female body, a legacy of painters (and a society!) who rendered it an object of male desire. However, at the time – and here is the paradox – the female body was less valued than its male counterpart, more athletic and muscular. Eternal representation of the Female Nude

Botticelli was at the height of his career when he painted this picture, at the request of rich patrons, breaking with convention. His Venus is the graceful, elegant nude, far from any sacred and religious claims, far removed from the tradition of the Middle Ages. 3. Mannerism and Rococo: The Libertine BodyJean-Honoré Fragonard painted great landscapes, religious and mythological paintings. Yet he is considered the painter of frivolity and Rococo. The Shirt Removed from 1770 is undoubtedly one of the artist’s most iconic and sensual works. In the center, a naked woman lies down and a “putto”, a servant of the goddess Venus, removes her blouse. The painting presents a daring subject, even if the closed eyes and the half-turned body evoke a certain modesty. Here, the nude is sublimated by the white, gray and pink colors that highlight the young skin of this woman. Moving away from mythological and historical subjects, Fragonard revolutionized the genre in creating these intimate and frivolous nude paintings. 4. Romanticism and Realism: The Nude in total rupture Schiele’s nudes are linked to psychoanalysis, which was taking off at that time. The naked body is the vehicle for the artist’s existential anguish. His subjects convey the duality of the body, both a source of sexual impulses and a symbol of death. At the beginning of the 20th century, Schiele was described as a pornographer, a psychopath and even a demon because of his nudes, which were considered to be far too scandalous… Otto Dix

Because it’s a female artist representing and celebrating the sexuality of the female nude do modern viewersAt the time, Cézanne could not convince himself to invite real women to pose nude for him. Some critics believe that through this painting, Cézanne wanted to represent his fear of women, as a kind of harassment of these female bodies that make him so uncomfortable. In 1863, with his two paintings Olympia and Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Edouard Manet radically rejected the academic norms of the time. The Modern painter wanted to represent the reality of his time: Olympia is a prostitute, and not a mythological goddess or a nymph. He painted this reality without trying to idealize it. However, in the mid-19th century, depicting a nude was only permissible if situated in an exotic or mythological space. Here, the nude woman is strongly individualized and provocative. She stares at the viewer: it is this direct gaze and expression of indifference that causes a scandal. In the academic paintings, the naked female figures are “surprised”, as if somebody has walked in on her in the nude. Ultimately, they do not show themselves voluntarily naked. However, Olympia contradicts this idea. Edgar Degas This story is the beginning of a research idea, there are so many more questions these ideas suggest.