ess lusty feelings in

the same way that the

female nude has been used. In

Sexual Imagery in Women's Artwork

describe female artists attention to the manhood as

a way to encourage women to "demystify the man

anatomy" and encourage the re

alities of sexual meetings.

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The artist Eunice Golden clarifies

Speed sexuality, and that the imag

es of naked men shouldn't be

confused with pornography. Golden believes that se

xual art is political art, as it "challenges

widely-held, age old, often distorted

Understandings and strategies about psychosexual

Issues, sociological approaches, and economical

precepts based on beliefs of propriety and

property."

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To put it differently, when examining feminist

Vision of the male nude, we must realize

the broad consequences. A man

nude painted by a girl artist cr

eates an completely different

dialogue from a bare (man or

female) by a male artist.

explored the aforementioned job reversal by

painting portraits of nude men.

Kingsley compose that, "Sleigh's focus to

detail in her male portraits is like that of a

woman stroking her lover's body."

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In

poses in the classic style of the reclining

female nude. In contrast to most of the man

nudes I've analyzed, I find

Paul Rosano

to be refreshingly hairy. Sleigh has not

Tried to idealize her topic, and instead

appreciates every asp

to his frightening member. The model appears

willing, and yet like so many reclining female

nudes, will not return the viewer's (male or

female) gaze.

In Conclusion

This paper in no way tries to give a comple

te history of the post-Renaissance man bare, but

instead aims to analyze some of artists

and their depictions of naked men over several

centuries.

sual language to our understandings of maleness

and femininity (both constructed theories

Anyhow) throughout time. Even merely by

acknowledging the terminology, "naked guy" vs. "male bare" we can gain insight into our

Sylvia Sleigh,

Imperial Nude: Paul Rosano,

1977. Oil

relationship to this imagery. "Male naked" seems

subdued and connected with high art, while

"naked man" sounds practically vu

lgar. I purposely sca

self) get over the panic

of the naked guy. Significant art historian

aining that the English

language distinguishes

the term nude as "deprived of

our clothing, and the world im

plies some of the humiliation

most people feel in that state. The word nude

, on the other hand, carried, in educated usage,

no uneasy overtones."

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My foray into the vision of post-Renaissance

male nudes has confirmed

my feeling that our

relationship to the male nude is fully diffe

Lease from our relationship to the female nude,

but still complicated. The naked guy in western ar

t signifies the ever

-evolving ideal of video nudist ,

Along with the actuality of ex-husband

isting as a guy. Artists can use

the male nude as a boat to

showcase their true selves, without actually

Acknowledging anything.

idealized, if beach milfs of manhood.

The most acceptable and widespread imagery of

the male naked happens in academic settings

because studies of the human body are considered to be essential practice for the artist's

Instruction.

Interval, as the popularity of the ma

le nude began to decline in

favor of female nude vision, a feminized man

emerged, in response to the first crisis in

masculinity. Then, the torment and mystery of

life was admitted with the romanticized,

emotional man in the sculptures of Rodin. Duri

ng the twentieth century, Egon Schiele responded

to a second, or possibly continued catastrophe in masc

ulinity by analyzing his psychological self as a

grotesque naked body. Afterward, during the 1960s, Willia

m Theo Brown tried to impute a visual

language to his sexual preference and desire. Fina

st artists adopted the

subject of the male nude as a way to que

stion artwork and society's gender politics.

In the end, it turns out there are many excep

tional examples of the male nude in post-

Renaissance western art. So, why is this male

nude so underrepresented in, say, art history

survey classes? I believe that

there is a cycle set up. When

Vision of naked men began to

decline, and females became the favored

to naked women, and

unaccustomed to nude men. Because of this, the male body is cryptic and confusing to our

culture. I want to s