Communications I-E

BERGER'S WAY OF SEEING ART


Main Idea:
          Berger's way of seeing art is something unfair. He says that the purpose of woman models to be nude in the paintings so that male viewers will see it as an art worth for recreation. They made woman nude paintings so that they can satisfy the sexual desire of their male consumers, never realizing that it will cause a big difference in the society. This might cause the absence of respect to the women in the society.

Points: 
          *The nude paintings were specifically for men to view as pleasure images. Men could look at this beautiful nude and gain reassurance of their manhood.
          * Nude is being viewed as an object of sexuality or pleasure. 
          *The artist may use a mirror for the nude to gaze into, so she also turns into a viewer of herself. 
          *Berger points out the hypocrisy of this idea, the woman is vain because she is viewing her self, but the painting is made for the man to view her.
          *Men want the women and the sex and the women want to be the women. This idea of women and sex ties into the beginning of the book; where the women in the advertisements are used for the exact purpose that the female nude was used in traditional oil paintings.


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