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Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking

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year-old Alicia Silverstone bared it all for a good cause on Dec 20 in a PETA campaign against animal leather. “I never, ever, get naked in TV, in film, nothin’, never, nope — but I’ve done it for PETA because that’s how much it matters to me,” she said in the campaign’s behind the scenes video. She added, “I’d rather go naked than wear animals.” In the final picture, Silverstone is seen wearing nothing but cowboy boots as she covers herself up in a sexy pose in a cactus field. Elizabeth Hurley took showing off her stunning figure to a whole new level with a special Valentine’s Day picture of her posing completely nude in bed. “Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️❤️❤️💗💗💗💗,” she wrote in the caption. We love to see it! Lilith who is “sexually liberated, untethered from the restrictions of marital monogamy, erotically self-sufficient and has an unquenchable appetite for re-production” and who seduces Eve away from Adam in The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise by Michelangelo was later turned into a vehicle for “ the Victorians to express their anxieties over the so-called 'New Woman', who emerged out of burgeoning movements for female emancipation and suffrage.” In John Collier's 1889 painting Lilith, the bold Lilith was smothered and made to pose demurely, resembling the “ Venus “ and “ maiden”, the accepted representation of women in the patriarchal world. This exhibition speaks positively of that other half of art history,” said the exhibition’s curator, the art historian and critic Rocío de la Villa.

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In 2011, 40-year-old Nia Long posed both naked and pregnant on the cover of Ebonymagazine (see here via HuffPost UK), showing off her beautiful pregnancy glow and defying expectations about timelines for both pregnancy and posing for sexy nude photos. “I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes,” she told Ebonyat the time. Amen! I post bikini and nude photos because I finally feel good in my skin,” she wrote below one nude November post. “I don’t do this for compliments or likes. (Although they are very nice indeed). I’m doing it because you see thousands of images of younger women in the same situations. That’s what you’re used to seeing. No one tells them to put their clothes on. By what standard is it ok to ogle a nude teen, but not a mature woman?”

Catherine McCormack

Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art—Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna—and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs, ads, and across social media. By society empowering men to represent women, women imbibe a distorted vision of themselves and their bodies, coming up against notions of impossible beauty, idealized passivity and violence, and horrifying Medusas. Chapter one explores the archetypal Venus of Western art, starting with the 𝑹𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒃𝒚 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒔, through Botticellis’s 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒔, to 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒔 and examples of misogynoir (Kim Kardashian’s Paper magazine cover) and Gillette's “𝐼’𝑚 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑠” commercials.

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Later, Malleus Maleficarum influenced the German artist Hans Baldung Grien, whose grotesque wood prints of withes became wildly popular . Kim Kardashian has been posing naked for the entirety of her career — in many ways, she’s invented and advanced the art form. Her most recent nude magazine cover was in July 2022, when she posed naked for the cover of Allure at age 42 wearing nothing but a giant braid. In September 2022, she also bared her famous derrière for the cover of Interview magazine.

That a woman “has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life.” The second chapter looks at mothers and the construction of motherhood through appearance (a mother who looks beautiful is a good mother). Not to mention iconic imagery of the ‘Madonna and Child’ and depictions of the Virgin Mary being in only two instances: the piety of Jesus’ birth and the grief of his death. This chapter also looks at the ‘angel of the house’ in which mothers care for everyone but themselves unless paid or enslaved workers take over the role. Mothers are then un-autonomous machines with no sexual availability as it highlights women as organic (unlike the inorganic venus) unless fetishised (e.g MILF's). I find this simplistic – “ one form of sexual desire” is lumping all artists together, as if their paintings of nude woman are all the same. Do all men (all people) appreciate the “same” paintings and sculptures? I like Renoir, and don’t care for Modigliani.

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