When the writer K.Mihardja visited Affandi in his house in Jakarta Javastreem in Menteng, he was shocked to see Affandi's nude paintings featuring Maryati, Affandi's wife. Affandi replied to him launghing,'But we were born naked, weren't we? What could be more natural and pure than a nude human being completely uncovered.' Affandi who in the begin of his carrier as a proffesional painter lived in a bamboo house 'Rumah Bilik' worked half time as a billboard painter for movies and ticket collector at the Elita, Orion and Luxor movie theaters. The family's economy did not permit to hire any model, so he asked his wife to pose for him.

Affandi did not want to paint a nude for the mere sake of showing the beauty of a woman's body and nothing more what he wanted was the depiction of a nude woman, that could proud it a dramatic tention and in which the viewer could grasp some traces of the tragedy of human life. Regarding he theme of human beings in my paintings, I am only interested in subjects that tell me there stories Affandi said, take for instance his nude entitled 'Fat and Broken' 1947. For which he wrote an handwritten note 'Oleh karena sukar mendapatkan nude+model yang baik untuk kepentingan latihan kita di pelukis rakyat, terpaksa hanya bisa mendapatkan model prostitute yang sudah rusak, sudah tidak laku lagi pada orang lelaki. Diluar dia kelihatan gemuk, tapi dalam sudah rusak, rongsok. Nasib seorang wanita...' All his life Affandi painted nudes, but never abondoned there empathic attitude toward suffering people.

Take striptease scene in Baltimore (1962) depict not the sexiness of the body, but rather the miseriable life of the stripper. It is not nakedness it self that features most prominently in Affandi's nude. His first nude painting Affandi did sell during his exhibition in Banda Aceh 1977, was a nude painted in Tawangmangu, the buyer was an Islamic Scholar (Kyai) by the name of Hambali. Affandi's erotic works of sexual intercourse reveal the artist's characteristic attitute so intensly maintained throughout his carreer the strong pyschic connections to the artist himself,' The helpless people in the street, like the prostitutes, powerless in there tragic life tortured and suffering from others, greed and lust'. This erotic paintings are full of passions and emotions, nature and rich with experiences and able to convey them as tonnagely so that his works feel deep and touching.