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WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people. * gay historical art *
Summary of Queer ArtAny art that n be nsired "queer" refers to the re-appropriatn of the term the 1980s, when was snatched back om the homophob and opprsors to bee a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the experience of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people. Sce the late 19th century, cultural and legal rpons to homosexualy have evolved, but was only the send half of the 20th century that many of the laws crimalizg homosexual acts were overturned. It wasn't until the late 20th century that homosexualy was no longer nsired a pathology by psychiatrists, and wasn't until the 21st century that marriage rights were granted to same-sex upl.
Key Ias & Acplishments Bee of the early crimalizatn of homosexual acts and the social stigma nnected to homosexualy, much Queer Art employs d visual language that would not aroe spicn among the general public but would allow those faiar wh the trop of the subculture to glean the hidn the rise of activism the wake of the Civil Rights protts and the AIDS epimic, Queer Art beme more ank and polil s subject matter, forcg the viewers to regnize queer culture and to unrsre the stutnal equi and hypocrisy that fueled Inty Polics surroundg Queer Art has sparked much bate, wh some artists embracg Inty Polics and other chewg as not important for their work. Mapplethorpe's photography pictg still lif of flowers, celebry and Royal Fay portraure, and pictur of children are well-loved, but his powerful and subversive imag of homoerotic subjects are most notable their power to dramatilly alter perceptns and ph boundari. It was work that ptured social change real life and brought the gay experience to the light for all to see - enuragg members of the gay muny to e out of the shadows.
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The work is placed a park, oppose the Old Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village and the se of the Stonewall rts 1969 - one of the most important events the gay liberatn movement. Later, she wanted to prent ordary pictur of queer life as a retort to the notn that the gay liftyle was somehow viant, and dog so she produced sightful and timate portraure that has been wholly absent om mastream media. Chromogenic photographic prt - The Guggenheim Mm, New York Begngs of Queer ArtBefore 1861, the ath penalty existed for people nvicted of gay sexual acts England and Wal.
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 historical art *
"A discsn of the queer experience relatn to art history n beg 1870 when for the first time a paper by German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Wtphal nsired the experience of "ntrary sexual feelg" which two people were alg wh what would later e to be known as homosexualy. He wrote the History of Sexualy (1976), "The sodome had been a temporary aberratn; the homosexual was now a speci, " htg at a future where the queer experience would bee an important branch of Inty s later, 1895, the Brish thor and playwright Osr Wil was sent to prison for two years after he was nvicted of sodomy, and the trials helped shape an emergent inty of the homosexual artist.
Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, for stance, said Jasper Johns' very famo monochrome entic Whe Flag (1955) was a statement about beg a gay man a rtrictive Amerin society. I am your worst fantasy, " posng homosexualy as a se of both anxiety and AIDS Crisis and Culture Wars the 1980s Gay inty beme the se of a new battle the 1980s wh the onset of the AIDS crisis.