Painting Cloth - Less Women, Nude Female

The figurative artists experience that beauty is beyond the figure of a model. This leads the artists to infuse their ideas of beauty assigning to the model sitting before their eyes.They imagine and then they paint the same on canvases. This is the reason why the eyes of viewers looking at figurative paintings would find something artistic in it. Such painting is not the photocopy of a model that had been painted. The colours spread on canvas are not the colour of the skin of the person portrayed or painted. The artists add an element of beauty through their artistic endeavours.
In the paintings or drawings of unclothed women, curvy parts of body are depicted. It is done mainly for the purpose of attracting attention of male viewers. Very often this type of depiction is meant to find the attracted eyes, and not the eyes interested in the art. I would say that these paintings have used the natural beauty of human body as an object rather using it as a subject of artistic depiction.


Take a case of one artist, Bouguereau. He was a French artist who painted human figures as realistically as possible. His paintings are known as photo realistic paintings. There is a class of artists and art lovers who believe that a realistic figurative painting would be suggestive of undesired elements, attached with corporeal desires. If we look at the paintings by Bouguereau, we would tend to go away from this belief. Main purpose of figurative painter who paints man of women cloth-less is the promotion of art and not the sensuality attached with such subjects.