Artists assumed that women do not have desires of their own they exist to be looked at, posed so that their bodies are here only to be consumed.īerger wrote there was hypocrisy in this: 'You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her … put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting 'Vanity'. The nude woman in many paintings is there to feed the appetite of male sexual desire. He heavily criticises Renaissance male painters for their eroticisation and objectification of women. They depict women's naked bodies but do not celebrate the beauty of the human body. Berger tackles the position of women in society and how this was reflected in so-called high art paintings.
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