Why Donatello’s famoly androgyno sculpture of “David” should be tepreted as a reflectn of gay culture Renaissance Florence." data-reactroot="
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- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
- "GAY"/ FE ART PRTS ▼
- RULTS FOR "GAY" SCULPTURE ARTWORKS
- CLASSIL GAY SCULPTURE & STATUE COLLECTN
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Donatello moled the heads of many of his sculptur and statu om Roman bts, and art historians now generally believe that David’s was based on Anto, Emperor Hadrian’s gay lover. Janson first posed that the artist himself was gay (or at least mored to be) 1957, and that Donatello’s personal bgraphy drove his homoerotic pictn of David. Janson’s alln to Donatello’s homosexualy, and his suggtn that the artist’s inty might have played a part this masterpiece, put cril nos out of jot.
Yet this reactn was particularly rash, nsirg that 15th-century Florence was nsired a gay mec. Florence had such a reputatn for beg acceptg of homosexualy that the French lled gay sex the “Florente Vice, ” and Germany, Florenzer was slang for a sodome. Conservative monks railed agast this acceptance for more than moral reasons, worryg that the growg trend of homosexual relatns between unmarried men would lead to a cy-wi populatn cle.
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The dashgly charmg -founr of the Llie-Lohman Mm v si his SoHo apartment—an unbelievable monument to gay creativy and art. " data-reactroot=" * gay sculpture art *
The enigmatic actor, art llector, gay activist, globetrotter, and doyenne of the SoHo scene has, along wh his late partner J. Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through. This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals.
At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively, ” Llie lamented.
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As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. * gay sculpture art *
Photo by Max Burkhalter for wi-rangg llectn gently illtrat the changg landspe of public gay life and the civil rights advanc crementally gaed sce he began discreetly buyg homoerotic art the 1950s. It is only the last three s that homosexualy has gaed legal protectns the Uned Stat. When the llectn began to take shape, sodomy was outlawed ( still is several stat), and gays uld be refed service at bars and other there were numerable challeng to gog about buildg such a libido, Uranian llectn.
Much like homosexualy self, gay art was hidn away—tucked the back rooms of galleri, wh entry granted by s and vert nods passed between figur who had to read the other as part of their circle. Generally, homoerotic works “were ma for iends, ” Llie said, and they’ve only more recently been g to the market. He ced the Amerin artist Pl Cadm, “a very charmg man” he knew through gay circl Cann.
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Born the remote town of Deadwood, South Dakota, 1933, Llie had saved enough money by the time he was 17 to take a b to Los Angel, where he enuntered his first gay muny.
After his two-year stt was up, Llie enrolled the Sorbonne Paris before travelg throughout Europe, livg Venice and Amsterdam, known as the gay pal of post-war Europe. Tipped off by a iend, Llie “found a ltle old ticky-tacky shop, ” as he relled, that trafficked the sale of homoerotic art. An elrly gentleman, whom Llie perceived to be gay, sat behd the unter.
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Ccially, however, this perd allowed him to experience the nuanc of gay culture around the world, which drastilly changed his worldview.
He relled gog to a ernment-sponsored gay bar Amsterdam: “The first thg you saw when you walked was this huge, long bar wh a gigantic picture of Queen Juliana sg out at her gay subjects. 1960, “I plunged to the gay rights movement stantaneoly bee so much bullsh was gog on this untry, ” he said.
“Frz and I both had always been volved gay rights issu, ” Llie said. They were pecially active wh the Gay Activists Alliance. It’s a misnceptn that their llectn only featur work by gay artists.