Instagays, Unfiltered

Contents:

• THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
• INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
• GAYS DRAWGS

THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE

Digal artist Laceoni, who hails om Portugal, recently shared some of his geo new homoerotic sketch. Well I ncentrate mostly on gay sex posivy and the male body. When I received a msage om a straight guy sayg, "I am not gay but I really love your artworks, " I thought that maybe, a small way, I have succeed promotg this same appli to all of my straight iends that are lovg the works and were actually a b sulted or offend that I hadn't told them about and shared my artwork wh them earlier on.

Though as a young gay artist, Tom of Fland was a great fluence for me. I was always awed by his world and imagery, and gettg to see his work all sorts of art books served as a great means of motivatn my start to the exploratn of creatg gay erotic art. You recently did a ver for gay p-up ze, Meatze.

Are you a gay ze fan? I like everythg that is gay erotic art related, and z are clud this. Unfortunately I don't know too many gay z, though I would love to disver more.

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The few other gay z I know of are Doable Guys that I had participated , and mentn on your Instagram that you do missns. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWorkg largely outsi the gallery system, a group of illtrators is revivg the disciple and refg how queer bodi are reprented MacConnell, “Ernie” 2014, waterlor and pen on paperLAST FALL, IN a ty apartment downtown New York, a 30-year-old gay physique mol named Matthew Williams stood naked agast a whe backdrop ont of the gay artist John MacConnell. Over the next 2, 000 years, pturg the naked male form beme an sential artistic skill, one that reached s apotheosis Wtern culture durg the Italian Renaissance, when homosexual sire was subtly exprsed Donatello’s bronze “David” (cir 1440) and Caravagg’s patg “The Micians” (1597), where the tradnal female me is replaced wh a band of boys, partially robed togas, referencg a Greek and Roman perd which homoeroti was a part of society.

Classics profsor Andrew Lear, 59, who now ns Osr Wil Tours, a pany that offers excursns foced on implicly gay art and history major while some old masters fetishized the male body barely d ways, the ia of an openly queer artist exprsg his sir om a queer perspective was only born the last century.

Ined, cricism of works like Cadm’s durg an era which homosexualy was still forbidn phed many of the artists to the unrground, om where they’re still beg unearthed today. (It’s perhaps not cintal that Alan Hollghurst’s latt novel, “The Sparsholt Affair, ” a gay retellg of Bra the 20th century, clus a 1940s-era artist tryg to pursue a classmate at Oxford by drawg his figure. ) Frato, “Tangere” 2016, lored pencil on paper, urty of the artist and Antoe Levi, Paris; Jordan Mejias, “Dare Me, ” 2017, monochromatic waterlor on paper, om the book “Of Art and Men” (Photograph: Hans-Ge Pospischil) © Jordan MejiasIN THE YEARS after Cadm, other gay perspectiv on the male body found their way to visual culture, though they’ve typilly been nsired taboo or hypersexual.

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And spe the “queer enlightenment” of the 1970s and ’80s, when Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayo and others brought man-on-man sex to the mm, there rema few celebratory imag of openly gay men Wtern visual art. Williams’s afternoon ssn wh MacConnell, fact, is part of a recent revival of male figure drawg among ntemporary gay artists — cludg Kou Shou, Mart Bedolla and Stephen McDermott — who all specialize stripped-down reprentatns of largely young whe men. MacConnell and Williams met 2016 at the artist Mark Beard’s drawg salon, which now attracts a rotatg st of about 30 gay artists.