The artistic convention of the nude has been around since ancient times, and its sexist undertones have always accompanied it. The naked female body has long been a source of pleasure to the male eye. It is commodified and assigned value through its sexual attractiveness to the male eye. The conventions of nudes have shifted to please male audiences throughout…
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Cultural Appropriation in Modern Art
One of the classes I’m taking this semester is about art since around 1900, from Post-Impressionism to Contemporary Art. As a class at the University of Toronto or any traditional institution, the class is taught from a very Eurocentric point of view. However, many European artworks from this time were starting to gain influences from other parts of the world.…
