Analysis Of Tim Parker's Nude Paintings

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Kenneth Clark said “No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse the spectator in some vestige of erotic feeling.” I don’t believe this is true for today’s art and especially not of Tim Parker’s nude paintings. Clark differenciated the naked and the nude as voluntary vs. involuntary. To him being naked was to be deprived of clothes which would cause a feeling of embarassent to the model. To be nude the womans body would have to been re-formed into an idealized verson of herself. Clark’s ideas were often drivin by attraction, he claimed that correcct proportions, and manipulated bodies in artwork were mainly for the appeal of men. The women included in Parker’s work are primariliy slim so some viewers may argue that when discussing Kenneth Clark’s idea’s that he would consider Parker’s paintings nude’s, or idealized versions of the women he used as models.
Interpreting nakedness between nude in these paintings may be hard for John Berger to decide without knowing previous knowledge of the models used or people Parker intended to depict. To Berger nakedness means to be oneself, a viewer could argue that in the second painting the woman is showing her true self in her state of peace and her expression. Though others may argue that Berger …show more content…

These works may be labeled objectifying also because a male painter painted them. Today, these works could be seen as empowering to women. The first painting gives off an emotional ride of one duplicated woman or two women. The second painting shows an emotional journey of prayer and relaxation of a woman sitting in the lotus position. The third painting could represent a strong and empowered women respecting herself and her body. Times have changed and so have views of women in society which have influenced a change in how people view nude women in

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