Women Artists - Painting Nude Females and Males With a Changed Perspective

When we go to the exhibitions of figurative paintings, we find mostly the artworks that depict nude females. And surprisingly most of the painters who paint these nudes are men. In most of these paintings the curvy parts of female bodies are depicted for visible purpose of attracting the attention of viewers. Very often this type of depiction is meant to satisfy the voyeurism of the viewers, and not the persons who are really interested in the art of painting. such paintings have used the nude female body as an object and not as a subject of artistic depiction.

However with more women painters entering in this art of painting nude females and males, the scenario has changed drastically. The female nudes painted by women artists look like subject of the paintings, instead of the object for looking at.A woman artist also paints the breasts and other body parts of the women models, but there is a wide valley of difference in her painting them, so far as the basic attitude of taking nude female body as an object is concerned.

While seeing such paintings, a person with artistic eyes would not find that these paintings of nude female are painted only as an object for looking at. Women artists choose nude females as subjects of her artistic depiction; and they mostly remain faithful to the main road of the art without going on to the by-lanes. While painting her models, a woman artist honours the female body by painting all the delicacies and beauties the nude body possesses.