However I want to analyse part of his discussion about women and his opinion on how they should be viewed and represented in paintings. He also goes on to discuss how the ideas and thoughts of an artist can be quite childlike, and how many artist might subconsciously resort back to their childhood for inspiration in order to progress their work. This is where I lead onto Charles Baudelaire's 'The painter of Modern Life', where he discusses modernity and more specifically how beauty, fashion and lifestyle all relate in the eyes of an artist. Even their clothing was seen as a way of 'intriguing unwanted attention', meaning the choice of clothing they wore may give certain men the 'permission' to approach and confront a woman. Restricted and held to the duties society expected of them. This unveils a whole different understanding to Women's walking and how, especially back then, women did not have the same pleasure as their male counterpart. She also goes on to explain how women only go out to walk to be seen and not for their own pleasure and experiences. Solnit makes a powerful statement where she says 'women's walking is often constructed as a performance rather than transport'. I find it distressing to know that women could not complete such simple tasks, such as going for a walk, without be accused, ridiculed and abused by men who took advantage of their authority. The women would have to go through a medical examination, and if they refused they would be sent to jail for number of months. It would have been frequent for a woman to be accompanied by a gentleman, despite this The Contagious Disease Act gave police the right to stop and arrest any woman they suspected of being a prostitute.

It was rare to ever find a woman walking alone, as it would have been too dangerous for them, much like it still is today. In Rebecca Solnit's 'Walking after Midnight' she discusses what women went through during 1870 England when it came to walking the streets at night.

Solnit walking