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in the past it made sense because of the mythological or allegorical subject of the works, but later it's just people following tropes or mocking it, and now it's just because artists are too lazy to draw clothes and background so they just paint the familiar figures from figure drawing classes.

If you try to make porn but can't make it arousing it becomes fine art

Retard

>>7908153
diversify you media consumption habit bruh, there is like a whole world of fine arts out there, from landscape to still life to architectural paintings. frog post seem appropriate because you sounds like someone who lives in the bottom of a well.

>>7908186
i can recognize that way to many paintings are generic naked models while still enjoying art that doesn't fall into that category. these things are not mutually exclusive.

>>7908153
The human body is probably one of the most beautiful things anyone could paint.

>>7908164
Thats hillarious, I love drawing clothing precisely because it helps me mask my lack of knowledge of anatomy.

>>7908153
Photographic technology didn't exist, so how do men see a naked lady without actually dishonouring a lady's virtue by seeing her actual naked body? A Painting of course!

Besides, people are just generally more interested in people, so painting of people are always going to be more popular than say... landscapes or fruit studies.
And sex sells, making you richer, the galleries happier, and your customers and patrons hornier.

>>7908928
i have never found paintings of people particularly interesting.
they're just posing in a weird way most of the time.
landscapes are much more striking.

>>7908164
I wonder if it's because artists want to be able to see a woman naked in real life and they use """figure drawing""" as an excuse.

>>7914656
You'll notice a lot of older paintings have fairly 'man-ish' women in them... this is because the figures are that of men, with the female parts poorly grafted on. It would not do to look upon a woman's naked body and not be her husband.
Even then, being the nude reference for a painting was highly scandalous, I recall there's a couple of women in history who had their lives essentially ruined by it being revealed they were the nude model.

So anyway, back to your question; have their been artists like that? Most certainly. Was it common throughout history? Doesn't look like it.

>>7914766
you're like 500 years behind the curve, there's a reason the models were almost always prostitutes
the guy carravagio killed was the pimp of one of his models

>>7908153
NGMI.