Bathers On The Grass Analysis

What first catches the viewer 's eyes are the vivid colors used in the painting. Ultimately what jumps out the most is the man on the right 's red robe. The artist intended this for a reason, discussed later. The room where the men are standing is front lit. Also the atmosphere is

This naked picture is the only photograph in the entire body of work that shows full frontal male nudity. The viewer may feel uncomfortable looking at the image as it is highly provocative in its subject's pose, and the added Popsicle drips add an element of physicality. Because the artist is a woman and the subject is a male, for some people this caused an issue as it became more sexual. Emmet, the only male of the three children, is seen much less provocatively in the series than the girls are. The photograph ‘Sunday Funnies’, 1991, shows Jessie and Virginia lying naked in a bed really the comics in a newspaper, but Emmett appears with shorts. While the girls are busy acting out a role Mann has conducted, he stares at the camera, almost offended in the way he is

The main focus of the painting intended by Titian is a nude woman, Venus, looking straightforwardly at the audience. The young woman’s nipples are erect; with her left hand covers her pubic area, the sexuality of this painting is unquestionable. She is completely naked except for the ring on her little finger and the bracelet around her wrist. It is clear that the intention of this painting is to evoke sensual feelings in its audience.

In representing female subjects, both Pablo Picasso’s oil painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) manipulate the formal techniques of composition and perspective to create new ways of seeing their subject, emulating their contemporary society’s shifting views of women and the individual. Les Demoiselles depicts five naked prostitutes, flaunting their bodies, and some wearing tribal masks. In comparison, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère represents a female, who may also be a prostitute, tending a bar. The depiction of previously ‘hidden’ female subjects alone was an innovation of the perception of the artist, however, the formal treatment in representing these subjects was an important break from tradition.

The portrait is painted onto a black background, giving the total focus to the subject, who is looking directly at the viewer. This particular piece creates a sense of closeness and lends beauty to this particular woman.

The audience of the painting

The lack of women is also very prominent in the painting, there is only one woman and she is seen as squeamish, covering her arms and looking away, there is also no woman in the stands actually taking the

151). A dressing room should be private because of the actions performed in such room like getting dressed and undressed. It is a private space that is made public. “ Each located on the cusp of the private and the public, the interior and exterior, they thus capture the ambiguities and the complexities” (Belenky, p. 29). The article also tells us that Renee uses private places publically. In this novel Renee finds ways to get the attention she has not received her whole life. The dressing room is a perfect example of that. She breaks the rules by making her private space public, the idea that everyone refers to it as a place helps the reader realize that means everyone has seen it. This room was also lavish and extravagant. She gets self-gratification out of breaking the rules in the dressing room. This illustrates that she will go to extravagant measures to get what she wants. She is expressing herself through a private room because everything she’s ever known to be private is no longer

The reason for this is by how delicately soft pink color dress and the fact that she is located in the center of the painting. The highlight and happily bright as a rose she looks. We can predict that she enjoys being in the swing and feeling the breeze. From her eyes viewpoint, looking down at a gentleman, makes it believe that they have a connection going on. The bishop behind the young lady is also looking at her direction with a smile. There are two statues of cupids looking at her as well as a dog. The young beautiful lady on the swing makes the painting the emphasis by knowing that everybody is staring at her beauty, even us viewers were looking at her when we glanced to the

Obvious from the start is the artist's careful attention to details, illustrated in the richly decorated background and characters' attire. Employing this general density automatically enhances the Virgin's gaze, making it charged with severity, intense. On

The dance performance Queen size was such a riveting piece to watch, particularly because of its moments of vulnerable intimacy between the dancers. Watching them move so carefully and calculated across the space increased the tension I was feeling, even through a screen. The fact that we were in such an enclosed space made me feel like we were intruding on a private event. It felt voyeuristic of me to watch these men engage in such a personal activity and sit through its entirety. In the context of the Indian Penal Code, however, such a sense of voyeurism makes complete sense. The choreographer was interested in creating a sense of intrusion in the audience’s minds. He wanted us to feel like we were entering a sacred space that we had no business

On other paintings, the nude figures are not looking straight at the viewers so that viewers can comfortably look at them. But Olympia is confidently looking at the viewers that make viewers feel that they are "confronted by her gaze and by her thinking"

This is a negative male gaze, her being his ‘object’. When she gets to Edward, she lifts up his trouser leg and touches his leg in a carnal style; she then commences to undress herself, and takes off the very little clothes she was already wearing. She pulls the clothes off her slim-frame within seconds; the camera focuses on Edwards face, emphasizing his eyes staring at her naked body. Edward appreciates her body, and enjoys what he sees; this scene displays Scorophilia, as Edward gets a deriving sexual pleasure from looking at her skin, others suggests it is the irregular of gazing at.” (Sutherland 2003, p.59). This could not only be a male gaze, but it could also be looked upon as a curious gaze (Observing). Mulvey stated, “Scorophilia was associated with taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze.” (Laura Mulvey, 1975, 8) Not only is Scorophilia shown in this scene, but Fetishistic Scorophilia (“This is when the female figure is represented simply as a beautiful object of display (her objectification shows how voyeurism and this kind of fetishism can overlap” (Gillian Rose, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials,161) is also exposed as Vivian’s body is represented as an ‘object of display’. Her body is often pictured with close-ups capturing her flesh; this could be to make her look ‘perfect’ in the male gaze. However from how Vivian’s

images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature. In American Beauty Mendes uses the voyeuristic tendencies of the spectator to acknowledge the permeating constructed images. Mendes, through the use of narration, the mise en scene and cinematic techniques implicates the spectator in to using their voyeuristic tendencies to deconstruct

In the following paragraph, the narrator switches to third person narrative to explain the room. The room itself is polarized by gender. “A big one for madame and a smaller one on the opposite side for monsieur” (Rhys, 9). The woman’s bed is bigger, most likely so the man can come to her bed. In the novel, the reader will see over and over again that the public world is almost all male space and women enter at risk. However, in this paragraph, the private space of sexuality is dominated by women. Again, the “Midnight” and bed is female as opposed to the male “Day.”