Way of seeing
In western clutre, female could be seen in main stream art.
At first, people be seen as their own concpet. Then, some women in painting, could be seen as stranger of some one familiar with. The sight of viewer changed.
A women’s spectator could be a real man, especially male, but the spectator of a men, could be world or environment. To paint a man, his power or concious could be the main point, but as a women, that could be pysical beauty even sexual in some classcical painting.
nudity
Nudity sometime was disguise, exaggerated to show the body. And in European classcial painting, some wemon could take a mirror and seeing their self. Even right now, women will be focus by anything can be seen as mirror, because they can see their self.
women be seen as object
objected Ad.
In classical painting, women’s case were drew as a exaggratted action to show thier beauty.
In current market, women were used to put on cover / poster / Ad, to attract men.
female gaze
Some film use some ‘sexual’ shot to grab focus, such as take a shot of skinny body, naked leg. This film language even be popular still now.