Now here is something to talk about. As described, this italian painting (which amazingly only took 4 days!) Masaccio painted Adam and eve with the intent to portray the light source and the body's form with regards to the bone structure underneath not the muscle structure (flemish). It shows how these two have been thrown out into the world without being able to go back to paradise. This is just a scene out of two: this and The Tribute Money. It is interesting to discuss how Masaccio portrayed Eve with her hands covering her genitalia as well as breasts when he didn't depict Adam doing the same. He had Adam covering, with both hands, his eyes instead. It sends a message in a few ways. One could be that men can be seen as powerful and they can do anything they want, while woman cannot.
WOMAN: In different generations woman have been portrayed many different ways. You can see through the art history of the American painting of Madame X by John singer sargen, how her strap was falling and it was a huge controversy in c.1880. It was such an uproar that it had to be fixed. Then you see in woman portrayed in Italian art naked, without harsh criticism. Another way we can view woman is now woman can be completely nude and no one will say anything, it will finally be considered "art". Just like so many artists and photographers today.
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