Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics.
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* 20th century gay artists *
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. In the last 50 years alone, Keh Harg’s drawgs have raised awarens for the AIDS crisis of the ’80s; Nan Gold’s hntg photographs of New York’s unrbelly has shed light on the queer muny; Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the public wh his graphic imag of gay sex acts, promptg a revaluatn of bety and propriety.
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In the meantime, we’re takg you on a big gay art history tour through bohemian f, funky studs and dty mm basements to retroduce you to some well-known nam that you might not have known were queer. It’s a potent and necsary remr that gay love is jt about sex, pecially nsirg how lbian upl have appeared throughout Wtern art history: eroticized, fallen, impure, wchy and bched. When Robert Rschenberg died 2008, both the New York Tim and the Los Angel Tim “fot” to mentn one mor tail of his life their obuari: he was gay.
"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people. * 20th century gay artists *
Pavg the way for Pop, Rschenberg’s work might not openly reference his sexualy like some other artists’, but cric Robert Hugh lled Monogram “one of the few great ins of male homosexual love morn culture. ” Dpe beg gay men and partners both art and life, Johns and Rschenberg furthered the machismo ethics of the sweat-and-smoke-driven 1950s Abstract Exprsnists. Dpe the many gay artists volved the Abstract Exprsnist movement, a heteronormative pathos was eply rooted post-war Amerin patg.
As for his work, Wojnarowicz addrsed the disfortg outsir-stat of homosexualy while alludg to darker personal tths cludg his experienc of childhood vlence as well as his refal to hi his queer nscns. From gay paters like Leonardo da Vci and Andy Warhol to bisexuals like Frida Kahlo and trans artists like Lili Elbe and Jefey Cathere Jon, the rabow of great LGBTQ+ paters stretch around the world. Baker also served as a spy for the French durg World War II, passg along secrets she heard while performg for German Herich Ulrichs Ulrichs is regard by some as the pneer of the morn gay movement and the first person to publicly “e out.