Like my painting i have a particular style with the way that i draw and my source material. Although i like the idea of real life drawing, it is not easily accessible when creating works on the female nude. So like Jenny Saville and John Currin i have decided to create work from second hand source material as it is easy to access. I have taken a few images from the internet on muscular women (mainly body builders). The reason why i have chosen to create images from these very muscular women is that they are great examples of the over enlarged muscles that you would genuinely associate with men. But like Jenny Saville i have also researched body builders and the human bodies muscular system to get a better understanding of the sections that build up the muscles. For an example the stomach is made up of many muscles and sections that need to be worked out/ bulked up differently to build up one part of the body. Because of the male dominance surrounding the muscular form, it is not socially accepted for women to be as muscular as men. Women are generally perceived as the fairer sex. So would a muscular women be considered or not be considered as sexually appealing because they do not fit society’s idealized conception of what the female nude should look like?
