I find it interesting that your work, as well as Krieg's is about elderly women. You write about the emphasis on youthful beauty, so I wonder if there are any artists out there solely devoted to painting truly intimate portraits of nude men.
Some years ago, there was a naked men exhibition in the Leopold Museum, in Vienna, and... (how shall I put this?)... it didn't leave any impact whatsoever, other than inspiring the thought to start painting men, and doing something real with it.