John Berger. The art of seeing (№ 397471)

For the average European painting of a Nude model, never seen her main character. The main character - the viewer standing before a painting, and it is assumed that he is a man. All addressed to him. It should look like the result of his presence. It is for him a figure in the painting gained its nakedness. But he is, by definition, a stranger, and all his clothes on it.