Well this is may be controversial. But this is what I observed. The artists (I would restrict to those whose paintings I saw in the Mysore museums) , Indian mainly, seemed to be obsessed highly towards the woman's breasts. You see it in all most all the paintings. Okay its part of the woman body but you don't need to show them exclusively. Quietly annoyingly those things peep out in a lot of paintings even though it doesn't suit the context.
For example, in a painting of a woman having a bath, this kind of description seems valid. But why on earth would the same visualization be there, in a painting which depicts Bhisma's promise. Shantanu's would be wife in the picture was daughter of a fisherman, and hence may be dressed scantily but why is she flaunting her organs? Another painting, which may be a bit touchy, depicts a mother feeding her child. While some sort of display was evident here, if you take a look at the picture here [The sucking child], the out and out display seemed awkward to me. I don't think this is the way a mother feeds her child. And this continues, in a large number of paintings.
I couldn't avoid it, it's right there prominent and staring at you. So much so that I doubted myself am I a pervert? Phew! Apart from this part I liked the paintings very much. Some of the paintings I liked was the "Glow of Hope", "Moonlight" and "Romancing Couple" by Ravi Varma. The last one is not in the museum and be viewed here.
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