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Nude female figures called Venus figurines are found in very early prehistoric art, and in historical times, similar images represent fertility deities. His "stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art". The rest depict the everyday life. In the later classical tradition of the West , Venus was one of the most widely depicted deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality. The feminist art movement began to change this, but one of the first widely known statements of the political messages in nudity was made in by the art critic John Berger. By incorporating new images and symbols into the female nude image in Western art, the feminist art history movement continues to try and dismantle the male-dominated art world. The Chronicle of Higher Education.