Berger et al. explain that there is a certain style of European oil painting that does not put the nakedness of a women as the center display, but rather puts the relationship of the woman and artist on display. What is considered provocative about these

These paintings are provocative because they hint at what is under the clothes, instead of directly displaying a naked female. Berger claims that while clothed, the body is mysterious until naked.The process of becoming naked lessens the ordinariness of an unmoving body without clothes.