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- BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP
More importantly, Hockney has given an imagery through which we n beg to unrstand the whe gay male experience 1970s Los Angel. Hockney was an artist who fied generally-accepted social stctur and led his life as an openly gay man a world that systematilly opprsed and silenced those who did not nform.
5Quickly, Hockney also sought to rporate allns to his own homosexualy his patgs, spired by the texts of Christopher Isherwood and Alan Rechy, which revelled the explos of their homosexual characters.
At the time, homosexualy was illegal England, so Hockney pated self-portras. He was gay and pated himself, effectively creatg gay art, but flyg unr the radar. But Hockney also started his Love Patgs, which celebrated homosexual love by rporatg phallic elements tanm wh fantastil lors and imagery.
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
This was his attempt to fe the dividual, the real, and the imagary to provi a homosexual space of pleasure and actualized sire. Bohemian liftyl were the new fad, artists were weled wh arms wi open, and the gay scene was bubblg wh possibili. ” Hockney wanted to celebrate jt how different the gay liftyle is om the heterosexual one.
1It is out of this need to portray gay life that Hockney started formulatg his hedonistic, sun-bathed image of California.