Berger

I think if I were going to draw a picture of  a woman I would have her face to the left with her head looking back over her right shoulder. Because to me that would be how I wanted to see her in my drawing. That is probably one of the best ways to show her sexuality without demeaning her but at the same time would make her the focus of the drawing.

You set the scene up to where she would be in direct moonlight off a lake or a pond with a Shaw over her left shoulder draped down to about the middle of her back. A few fully bloomed trees with freshly cut grass.

This would be a nude painting because it shows the vulnerability of the woman to which would make people see her as a person that most could relate to as shy but still very much a woman of sexuality.


Classical art typically portrayed woman and men nude. This was seen in that time period as normal.Men were usually the painters and this is how they interpreted their sexuality. Modern day art and pictures in magazines still portray woman sexually but nudity is not accepted as it was in the day of classical art. Woman today are also seen as more independent and strong not just for their sexuality alone.

Discussion Question#1

Yes I think that where they portrayed these woman they had their self  pleasures in mind. At the same time they are trying to make them tasteful enough not to make them so risque. I think that Berger Would agree to a point. He may not say that I am a hundred percent right bu for the most part would be spot on.

#2

You see women in advertising all over the place in sexual poses anywhere from makeup ads to Victoria Secret catalogs. I don't think much has changed they still show woman as sex symbols because men are still seen as the ideal spectator.

I think that the portrayal of woman is still the same,they have something that sells. Maybe in mid-evil Europe the product was different but it was still a product.Woman are shown to be more powerful and strong minded in today's culture.Men want to see this to make them feel masculine in all aspects of life.

Apply Question #1

Men in classical art were also portrayed for their sexuality but not in the same sense as today. Modern art/pictures portray men more for their masculinity. Yes  I feel their is a generation gap between them and it is greatly affected by the way they are portrayed. 

#2

When reading the spectator would be us the reader and the subject would be the text we are reading.i don't enter in relations ships the only time you should is if its something you want to read.