![]() ![]() “It is rather as though a medical student were denied the opportunity to dissect or even examine the naked human body.” ![]() ![]() “To be deprived of this ultimate state of training meant, in effect, to be deprived of the possibility of creating major art works, unless one were a very ingenious lady indeed, or imply, as most of the women aspiring to be painters ultimately did to restrict oneself to the “minor” fields of portraiture, genre, landscape or still-life,” wrote Nochlin. However, women were rarely allowed access to these hallowed halls, and if they were, they would never have been allowed to draw from a nude. ![]() Therefore, it stands to reason that to learn figure painting, an aspirant had to learn by drawing from a nude body in the great art academies in France and Italy. “It was argued by defenders of traditional painting in the 19th century that there could be no great painting with clothed figures, since costume inevitably destroyed both the temporal universality and the classical idealization required by great art,” wrote Nochlin. If there had been an even playing field, women would have had the same chances of institutional and educational support that men had. ![]()
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