I enjoy drawing as much as i do painting, so allowing time for myself to create these sketches give me so many idea’s that i couldn’t possibly create everything. Again this image was sourced online and i made changes to the stomach using a different image, to keep the muscular female theme.
The reason i chose this image is because of the powerful gaze. Which i find intriguing. The Gaze is something that is generally occupied with the female nude. History has painted the female nude visually implying the ‘gaze’, a psychological theory, between the optical and tactical senses. (Sassatelli, 2011, P.123-143) The Gaze intended to titillate the male senses. According to psychologists Laura Mulvey, the “male gaze” positions the male as a spectator with the female on display, objectifying the women as an object, inviting the male to take pleasure through the gaze to project his own fantasy of either Voyeuristic or fetishist desire, powering the male’s ego. (Sassatelli, 2011, P.123-143) The male gaze used by artists, is an important process that defines the meaning behind a painting.
