Why do Europeans and Americans like to draw nude pictures?

It should be said that any kind of art has its historical origin and cultural background. People in European countries like to draw nude pictures since ancient times, which also has its historical origin and cultural background.

As early as more than 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece and Rome, people at that time had the custom of worshipping the human body and human reproduction, thinking that the human body was the best gift given by God, and the appearance of people was exactly the same as that of the legendary gods. Craftsmen and artists use jade and other stones to carve naked human figures for people to admire, which is considered to be the earliest human body art in the West, and the famous human body sculpture "Broken Arm Venus" came from this period.

After entering the Middle Ages, European countries have been ruled by religious theocracy, people's thoughts have been imprisoned, human nature has been suppressed, and the art of body sculpture and body painting has hardly developed. Thousands of years after being called "the Dark Middle Ages" by Europe, the "Renaissance" began in Italy in the14th century. The main purpose of Renaissance is to break through the imprisonment and bondage of religious theology, advocate "humanism", and put forward that man is the master of the world, and everyone has the desire and right to pursue freedom and happiness.

Renaissance is essentially an ideological and cultural enlightenment. However, at that time, due to the dominant position of religious theology, artists raised the banner of reviving ancient Greek and Roman literature and art. They took the ancient Greek and Roman religious myths as the theme, the legends and names of gods as the label, and the ancient Greek and Roman human sculptures as the model. During the Renaissance, which lasted more than two centuries, they created a large number of human oil paintings. Objectively speaking, these body oil paintings contain and run through rich humanistic thoughts, which have a positive effect and influence on enlightening people's ideological liberation and human liberation. Renaissance is called "the milestone of opening modern European civilization".

Renaissance is the most glorious period in the history of European painting, and it is also the period of unprecedented development and maturity of European body oil painting art. After the Renaissance, the art of body oil painting formed a systematic theoretical system, which was included in the basic course of public art teaching and was generally accepted by people in European countries. From expressing "God" to expressing people, it has become an important theme form of painting artists' artistic creation, and it can also be said to be a cultural phenomenon in the West.