The Male Gaze

In our plot, the artist is voyeristically lusting after the girl while painting. The camera is subverted as a male looking at a women, this is classed as the male gaze.

Historically speaking, the typical viewer of artwork was male. The term ‘male gaze’ has been a subject of much debate by art historians and has been use in Freudian and feminist contexts to describe the sexual objectification of women through various media outlets.

Most depictions of the female in paintings throughout history have been commissioned and painted by men for the pleasure of other men thus leading to the ‘male gaze’. Since women throughout most of history have been subjugated, kept illiterate and treated as property of their fathers and husbands, they have learned to be actually aware of that gaze. 

An example of this is from the OCR January 2012 exam, where they had to analyse the TV Drama, Fingersmith. It focuses on the undesirable love of one woman for another. In one scene the female is painting the other woman and the camera is used in a subverted way, hovering slowly over certain parts of her body, which the character is looking at.
This is rarely seen with this occurring over a man's body, since they are not typically seen as objectified.

Many other music videos use male gaze to sell the artist to the audience. This is especially in female artists music videos including Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj

However male artists are also objectified, this is seen less often but it predominately used in Artist, Jason Derulo, to sell him to his female audience.