Of course, this is not the case. The art of nude painting has gradually developed into a tortuous modern art. It is not as simple as opening up in the past, but it is so simple now. After all, there are thousands of years of history and so many cultural changes.
As an important oil painting theme, nude painting has developed to modern times, mainly thanks to the sculpture art of ancient Greece. Through various unearthed cultural relics, sculptures and literature records, we can know that ancient Greece achieved very high cultural and artistic achievements, advocated sports very much, and pursued fitness to an unprecedented height. Many of them are even worse than today. They held an Olympic Games at that time (yes, our Olympic Games today originated at that time) and made a statue of a man as a memorial to the winner.
From some unearthed sculptures, it can be seen that the sculpture of human muscle outline was in place at that time, and the definition of human beauty was basically the same as today. Never pursue bloated, fat is beauty. At that time, people thought that the human body was the most wonderful and beautiful. Our gym sports and aesthetics today also originated from that time.
However, the west is not always open. From ancient Rome after Greece to the Renaissance and the era of great navigation, Catholicism imprisoned the thinking of westerners. At that time, even a little description of this aspect would be burned to death, and women at that time would not go out. In this dark period, the development of human civilization is particularly slow (it seems that the progress of human civilization has a lot to do with the openness of both sexes).
The long-term oppression of darkness and the imprisonment of human nature are of course anti-human, and finally broke out in the Renaissance, just as Lu Xun said, "If you don't break out in silence, you will die in silence." So a large number of artists appeared, who were much more open-minded and initiated the Renaissance. However, what is the Renaissance at this time? During the period of imprisonment, culture, art and thought really didn't develop much, so from the fifteenth century, there was basically nothing but Silas' culture.
So artists began to draw pictures of naked women with sensory impact, which is also the revival and inheritance of ancient Greek art, but the difference is that the pictures of naked men and naked women in our eyes all depict the body of God at that time, because people at that time thought that the posture and appearance of God and man were the same, and the form of man was also the form of God. Therefore, artists or craftsmen avoid the political inaccuracy of the church when portraying naked women. If everyone thinks that you painted a naked woman instead of a god, you will burn to death, so I don't know how many naked women were named Venus (goddess). In this environment, people's thoughts have been greatly liberated, and human body oil painting has gradually become the mainstream of western art since then, and has been passed down to modern times.
In fact, it is not only the west that describes falling objects. There were many nude arts in China before the Han Dynasty, such as erotic paintings in Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, which were similar to western oil paintings in vision and subject matter, but different in artistic creation. Japanese ukiyo-e theme is a sex scene.
If we look further into human history, about 400,000 years ago, our ancestors began to feed horses, raise sheep, chop wood and travel around the world in the distant Middle East. The recorded human civilization is only six or seven thousand years, and the people wearing clothes are only several thousand years, accounting for only a few tenths of the total time of naked civilization.
Throughout human history, nudity is actually the norm, and this modern civilization is only a short-term abnormal phenomenon. If ancient people travel to modern times and see that the most sacred human body is not facing the sun and the moon, but covered by clothes, they may think that we are blaspheming, so there may be no need to make a fuss when they see nude art, just change the angle.