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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)then either artists don't want to paint nude men (they don't think it is beautiful) or the museum directors don't think male nudes are artistic enough. Or perhaps, just perhaps, our society doesn't want to see male nudes like they want to see female nudes. 15% vs 85% - and that has gone down from 24% -76% 40 years ago. It seems that male nudes are getting less appreciated as time goes by.
In any of these cases, female artists apparently don't make good enough art to make up more than 5% of the art on display at the Metropolitan Museum in NY - a percentage that has changed exactly 1 percentage point in the last 40 years (and remember, we're only counting the modern art section, because I think everyone understands that prior to the 1970s, female artists led the lives of Shakespeare's sister to a greater or lesser extent.)