In the episode 2 of “Ways of Seeing”, John Berger says, “to be nakedness is to be yourself, to be nude is to be seen naked by others”. In his eyes, nudity means people can see woman’s body as an unemotional object in the old Western culture. He thinks man judged women casually and women’s status is low in the European tradition. Artists explain that a nude is women’s natural way to display themselves. In the other hand, the artists themselves are strangers in their eyes because they are wearing clothes on. But no matter the era, women are still seen to have lower status than man in many countries. For instance, women who live in countries with the religion of Islam are forced to cover their bodies and faces until they marry a man, their body can only take off their clothes in front of their husband. The society limits the power of women; women have less human right than men. Same as the Western artists who draw naked women in the oil painting, they think women as objects that belong to men. From the accent time to the present, men like to see women in the nude but they judge women in the nude at the same time.

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