John berger ways of seeing episode 41/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I found this discussion progressive for the time, the views and opinions that were brought up and the relevance of these covering a wide range of options. The documentary then turns to a discussion between a group of women, various ages and from different backgrounds. This in turn, returning/repeating the biblical example by blaming the woman (Eve is blamed). As discussed in the documentary, we start to see the mirror as a symbol for the ‘vanity of women’ “paint a portrait of a woman because you enjoy looking at her, put a mirror in her hand, call the painting vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you have depicted for your own pleasure”. This idea of ‘women seeing herself’ brings both a literal and metaphorical meaning. This then starts to show nudity as a way of a ‘judgement’, perhaps we start to see the beginnings of the taboo nature of nudity?īeing ‘nude shows an awareness of being ‘seen’ by the spectator – they are naked as you see them’, this bringing thinking into the realm of being nude for a purpose. ‘Sees herself first and foremost as a sight – a sight for men.’ 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. ‘to be nude is to be seen naked by others, yet not recognised for oneself’Įarly European oil painting does not take for granted the aspect of nudity as in more ‘archaic art’.‘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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