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Women watch themselves being looked at… The surveyor of woman is herself male: the surveyed female. In the art critic John Berger's hugely influential 1972 essay Ways of Seeing, he argued that, historically, "Men look at women. Of course, the erotic intent of nudes before the 20th Century was almost always that conjured by male painters catering to wealthy male buyers. Many entrenched ideas of what feminine sexuality looks like – a certain languorous passivity, simultaneously coy and come-hither – are codified here. These supine naked women invite the eyes of the – imagined male – viewer to travel all over their curves. Painted in supposedly modest poses with hands delicately placed to notionally conceal their genitals, they also trafficked in idealism, not reality: no pubic hair here.īut rarefied and legitimised as they might be, such nudes also – inevitably – carry an erotic charge. Hunky, idealised nude male figures from myth or the Bible still occupied artists' imaginations (think of Michelangelo's David, or depictions of Adam) – but a new fondness emerged for the reclining female nude.Īrtists rendered the nude "respectable" in various ways: they painted goddesses or biblical figures as anonymous, generalised images of "beauty", rather than portraits of specific or identifiable women. While it was the muscular, well-proportioned male form that was celebrated in Ancient Greece, once we came to the Renaissance, the focus began to shift to women. From buxom fertility goddesses through to heroic Greek gods, the unclothed human body has been recreated from the moment we could carve rock. The pervasiveness of the "nude selfie" is just the latest step in our ever-evolving relationship with the naked image. "We're not saying that the slideshow of a teenager trying out various poses is as significant as a work by Rembrandt, but the art world cannot ignore this phenomenon." "Everything can be art if it's followed through by the maker with enough conviction and coherence," commented Nigel Hurst, CEO of Saatchi Gallery. In 2017, Saatchi Gallery in London opened a show, From Selfie to Self-Expression, drawing the line between traditional self-portraits through to the humble camera phone shot, from Rembrandt and Van Gogh through to Kim Kardashian and Barack Obama. The art world is increasingly taking note of the selfie form. And nowhere is that more carefully manipulated, surely, than in the nude snap. We're more aware than ever not only of our own image, but our presentation of it – how we make ourselves appear to the eyes of the external spectator. It's estimated that over a million selfies are taken every day: self-portraiture meets self-promotion. In that way, are nude selfies part of a lineage of naked representation that runs back through art history?Ĭertainly, you could argue the selfie – including the naked one – is the artwork of our time. Posed and carefully lit, cropped and filtered to flatter, they are crafted for the imagined appreciation of the viewer. Seductive nude selfies are usually staged and carefully framed, albeit often within the confines of a bedroom or bathroom dressed up for as well as undressed for. But then, few people sending nudes traffic in realism. During a pandemic, it's also become almost a practical necessity for many – a way of keeping sexual fire alive, over enforced distance.Īrguably, there are also positives to having a greater openness and diminished prudishness about real-life, normal human bodies. While the potential for coercion, abuse and shaming are high, sexting can be a fun, consensual way to develop intimacy. Its increasing prevalence as a phenomenon is neither a simply "good" or "bad" thing, Ingles – and the writers of Sending Nudes – suggest. It's just that it used to be a private, little-spoken-of activity, rather than part and parcel of digital dating and contemporary life. But since the advent of smartphones, sending nudes has also become normalised incredibly quickly: any woman who's been on a dating app in the last decade will likely have been asked to share nude pictures with eyebrow-lifting speed.īut Ingles reminds me that sending nudes isn't really new: "When I was in my early twenties, I sent nudes to someone – this was before the internet, so it was Polaroids". "Sending nudes" is more of a live topic than ever, chiefly because the ease of taking, replicating and sharing naked images has led to anxieties about everything from revenge porn to celebrity sex tapes, hacked private images to sexting teenagers.