Within the renaissance art, nudity is used to express the ‘moment of shame’, but instead of a depiction of fame to each other, (Adam and Eve) the shame is held in the spectators eye. After Eve eats the apple, she is punished and made subservient to Adam, therefore the way that she is seen is different – ‘ nakedness is in the eye of the beholder’. The same story is told throughout later work, presented in Medieval art as a ‘comic strip’ with the story being expressed through multiple moments, but we find parts of the bodies covered. Nudity within early art is just depicted as it works within the story – Adam and Eve in the story of Genesis.
‘a form of art’ – ‘but also has to be seen as an object’.‘being naked is simply being without clothes’ – Kenneth Clark ( The Nude).We can begin to also see the ‘criteria and conventions of the way women were judged and seen by the ‘male gaze’. Going back to early European oil painting, we can begin to see the ‘principal, ever occurring depiction of women’ – the nude. Her own sense of being is replaced by a sense of being appreciated by others – ultimately men.’ ‘She is born into the keeping of men, and from childhood is taught to survey herself, with the result that her being is split into two, the surveyed and the surveyor.
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