Aits with erotic unde

rtones (or perhaps overtones). Schiele frequently
used himself as a model, and depicts himself in
vulnerability, and self-
Assessment. In his nude self portraits, Schiele ex
plores "the power of sexuality issues of
Physical identity, and
carnal experience."
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What better means
to learn about a fresh individuality in "manhood" than by
tapping into one's own soul?
In Schiele's
Naked Self Portrait
from 1910, the artists
depicts himself full frontal, emaciated, and hairy, with no
feet or hands, and his red eye reflected by his nipples,
navel, and member. The image is
in dramatic contrast to the
calm and collected Neoclassical men, and even to Rodin's
emotional sculptures. The dominant thought that clothes is essential for reasons of modesty is a cultural premise. It is an
goes in the direct opposite
Purpose of the grotesque. The artist
is tortured and intense as
he attempts to comprehend his inner self. Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele,
Nude Self Portrait,
1910.
Black chalk, watercolor on paper, 44 x
30.5 cm, Leopold Museum.
completely broke away from the European trad
ition of the nude by attempting to capture the
To date, the bare self portrait is apparently an e
fficient means to depict on
e's private chaos, but
to give measurement to questions, desires, or
Social shifts. Throughout the twen
tieth century, artists continued
to use the male bare to give
visual language to
the changing world.
The Changing Man
code of maleness continued to change. In
his article
Social Nudism, Masculinity, and the Male N
ude in the Work of William Theo Brown
David McCarthy describes that
Both of these artists offered
alternative imagery of the man
condition. During the twentieth cen
tury, an increasing culture of
the free body raised the popularity of
social nudism as a utopian notion.
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Naturist magazines
Supplied vision of the great fr
eedom and enjoyment that could be ha
d as a naturist. These magazines
depicted folks relaxing, playing sports, and in
teracting with each other
Much like in a routine
magazine, except that the individuals were completely nude.
( Let us revive our encouragement and development of all kinds of nude-themed artistic expression that celebrate nature, fertility, sustainability. We have to design far more tasks around these artistic forms of expression. -2012) used Scandinavian fkk magazines
as inspiration for his paintings. McCarthy
e a homoeroticism that was considered
inappropriate (if actualized in real life) during
the time the artist created the pictures.
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So,
Brown painted male nudes interacting together in
order to give visual language to his own
Gay want.
ect has such history in
western artwork, Brown was
able to express his desires in a way
that could be deemed "appropriate."
In Brown's painting
Muscatine Diver,
from 1962-1963, the artist depicts two naked man
bathers, both in motion (affected by the magazi
nes). The artist's intere
st in painting nudes in


the outside expresses his desi
re to reconnect the body to
nature, and maybe gain the vi
ewer's subconscious endorsement
of the natural want of homose
xuality. McCarthy explains that
Brown tried to illustrate the lifestyle that he believed in.
Similar to the "crisis in masculinity" that both Solomon-
Godeau and Hammer Tugendhat describe, the 1960s postwar
society grappled with the e
volving idea of manhood, and artists
continued to attach images to
their perceptions of themselves,
and others as guys. To date, we've only looked at pictures of
nude men by other guys! Surely, there must be another
perspective on the bare male, besides from that of his own
Sex.
The Female Gaze
The idea of the gaze is frequently related to a male gaze
directed towards a female.
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Muscatine
Diver,
1962.
x 101.6 cm, The Oakland
Museum of California.
Embraced "representational strategies to challenge
phallocentrism and the male gaze, illuminate
female sexuality and eroticism, critique visual economies that restrict girls to heterosexual and
maternal identities, and celebrate manners of
existence that transcend patriarchy and white
supremacy."
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Even just the works discussed in this
paper demonstrate how western artwork and its
history have been dominated by the white man. As
previously discussed, the genre of the female
nude is widespread, which brings us back to th
e essence of this paper, "What About the Male
Bare?" Now we know that there have been male
Created all of them.
created by female artists? Feminist artists
addressed exactly this problem by creating pictures of
naked guys, so that the notion of the gaze might
be shaken up.
Feminist artists such used the male bare to expr