Enhancing their feelings of masc

ulinity, looking at bare guys can cau
perceived heterosexuality. The me
n that Eck interviewed did not
tend to compare their bodies to
the men they were shown. Instead, the guys eith
er rejected the pictures, or stressed their
indifference (perhaps to distance
themselves from homosexuality)
. Eck found that it was merely
much harder for both genders to talk about pictures of the male nude.
8
It is no wonder that the
nude man is more obscure than the female nude


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the male naked, and the noticeable deficiency of nicely
known male nudes in post-Renaissa
nce Western art is intertwine
d, and likely even cyclical.
So, maybe we should investigate why male nude
The decline in male nudes within the western
Artwork historical perspec
tive can be comprehended by
the boost in imagery of the female nude
century Salons. In
Male
Trouble: A Crisis in Representation,
Abigail Solomon-Godeau explains the male nude came
to symbolize the outdate
d ideals of the Academy.
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The arrival of modernism arguably occurred
modernism represents the anti-Academy, it's
Clear that artists began
to grow weary of the Salon-friendly male nude story.
Solomon Godeau goes on to imply that while
the male nudes exhibited at the Academy tended
to be part of stories, their nudity representati
ve of heroism and the ideal guy, the female nude
became increasingly detached from narrative and developed into its own genre.
10
For example,
consider Ingres' (1780-1867) paintings
(1814). In
Achilles
, the nude men are embedded in a story.
Although their nudity might appear unnecessary to our
contemporary eyes, the figures are still part
of a story. In
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, the nude female inhabits the vast
majority of the picture plane,
and rather than making her part of
a
Story, Ingres paints her as
the
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While male bodies
need a reason to be naked, nude women require no explanation. As the female nude gained
popularity as a topic, the male nude as part
of narrative artwork didn't just vanish. What
happened to the nude guy in western artwork is wh
at Solomon Godeau refers to as "male problem"
and "a crisis in representation."
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In other words, images of
men, particularly male nudes,
underwent a change.
The Female Guy
The period in which the female nude
steadily began to replace the male nude
was approximately the thirty-year period
between the French Revolution and the
July Monarchy. Solomon Godeau claims
that the revolution, and counter revolution
Changed sex ideologies. This "post-
revolutionary crisis in masculinity" is
represented in a ton of images from
well-known artists of
the eighteenth and
nineteenth century.
12
Before the female
nude seemingly overpowered the man
nude as a genre in western artwork, a more
"Female" male nude enjoyed a heyday. I
use the term feminine to describe the
typical connotations
of femininity, though
not the term feminine isn't as applicable in
this era. The lack of a better
substitute for the word "feminine" is
restrictive.
Let us return to Ingres' painting,
Achilles
as an example of nineteenth century
imagery that harkens back to the Greco-
Roman ideal of man. Actually, Solomon-
1800
.
146 cm, Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts.
1814. Oil on canvas, 91 x 182 cm, Musee du Louvre.
Godeau refers to this kind of interaction as
homosociality, which can be recognized from
homosexuality because the "relationships between
men are doubly charged, both along the vertical
ontal one of peer connections."
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So, the interactions between the guys
in
Achilles
are differentiated by varied
distributions of electricity, a
nd additionally by a sense of man
community. The only woman in the painting is almost hidden in a dark room on the left, but
the feminine stances of the two naked men on the le
Feet part of the painting, together with their silky
white skin and rosy cheeks replace the need fo
r reclining woman. The muscular man to the far
right of
Achilles
dominates the other men both in physique an
d stature. Ingres re
veals a variety of
masculine appeal, for instance, female mascul
ine, making the female dated in the
Instance of