Flesh Through The Ages

All those naked women in art museums all over the world! Are they just luscious patterns of color and texture or is there more going on? What are they doing? What is being done to them? Why are they naked? Sexual exploitation, domination, abuse and voyeurism are everywhere in our culture. When these themes are aestheticized, why does the discussion stop?

The Male Graze isn't about censoring artworks or condemning sexuality as immoral. It’s about facing the fact that western art is and has been obsessed with female bodies, sex and violence.

Naked and Tortured

Sebastiano del Piombo, Martyrdom of St Agatha, 1852

Master Francke, Torture With Fire, Saint Barbara Alter, c.1410-1415

Naked and Murdered

Eustache Le Sueur, The Rape of Tamar, c.1640

Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapale, 1827

Naked in War

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Battle of the centaurs and the lapithae, 1852

Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of Hippodame, 1636-1638

Raped

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Persephone, 1621-22

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Wildens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, c.1618

Harassed

Anthony van Dyck, Susanna and the Elders, c.1621-22

Peter Paul Rubens, Susanna and the Elders, 1607

For Sale

Jean-Léon Gérôme, A Roman Slave Market, c.1884

Hermann Michalowski, The Girls or The Vase, Late 19th c.

Sexy and Dead

Reginald Arthur, The Death of Cleopatra, 1892

Henry Fuseli, Cupid and Psyche, 1810

Naked Lunch

Unknown (Titian), Pastoral Concert, c.1509-10

Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863

Naked With Animals

Peter Paul Rubens, Leda and the Swan, 1602

Mel Ramos, Giant Panda, 1971

Naked With Friends

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Nymphaeum, 1878

Philip Pearlstein, Two Models with Mexican Rug, 1983

Just Lying Around

Giorgione, Sleeping Venus , 1510 — Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, 1510

Paul Gauguin, Nevermore , 1897 — Paul Gauguin, Nevermore, 1897

Edvard Munch, Reclining Nude: Night , 1922-23 — Edvard Munch, Reclining Nude: Night, 1922-23

Francisco Goya, The Nude Maja , c. 1797–1800 — Francisco Goya, The Nude Maja, c. 1797–1800

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Reclining Nude (The Source) , c.1895 — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Reclining Nude (The Source), c.1895

Gustave Courbet, Sleeping Nude , 1862 — Gustave Courbet, Sleeping Nude, 1862

Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude , 1919 — Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1919

Philip Pearlstein, Nude on Green Drape , 1970 — Philip Pearlstein, Nude on Green Drape, 1970

Jeff Koons, Woman Reclining , 2010-2014 — Jeff Koons, Woman Reclining, 2010-2014

Glenn Brown, On the Way to the Leisure Centre , 2017 — Glenn Brown, On the Way to the Leisure Centre, 2017

John Currin, Nude In A Convex Mirror , 2015 — John Currin, Nude In A Convex Mirror, 2015