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Contents:
- CATEGORY:GAY MEN ART
- BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP
- WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
CATEGORY:GAY MEN ART
"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people. * gay art wiki *
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BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP
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 art wiki *
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WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
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In an era before the femist and gay liberatn movements, the sensatnalized imag on the books’ vers were often the only way for women to read about lbianism. Like other sleazy publitns of the 50s and 60s, gay pulp fictn vers showed a fantasy world full of absurd clichés, sctive pos, and mcular bare chts. Born New Jersey 1954, David Wojnarowicz endured an extremely abive fay life, stggled wh beg a gay youth and subsequently dropped out of high school by the age of 16.
His art reflected that grief, anger, tratn and fear by drawg attentn to Amerin relig fundamentalism, nservatism, fear of the body, homophobia, enomic imperialism, all while raisg up the voic of margalized and stigmatized dividuals. Unapologetic about his homosexualy, Warhol often produced erotic photography and male nus, and his work was heavily fluenced by gay unrground culture. They are perhaps most famo for their image of three terracial upl (straight, gay and lbian) kissg above the ptn “Kissg Don’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, ” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope wh a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis wh texts about women and ndom e.
To someone (like this wrer) wh only a middlg knowledge of art, ’s hard not to immediately thk “gay Pisso” upon first seeg the patgs of Louis Frato, 27, the Brooklyn-based pater who’s gotten a lot of attentn om the art world recent years and jt fished up his send solo show, Morng, at New York Cy’s Sikkema Jenks & Co.
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Frato’s imag of hunky, furry, young gay men havg sex or lyg around, alone or together, are cidly non-naturalistic, boastg a lot of the Pissoque featur of mornism, such as body parts pated out of proportn or perspective, or broken up to cubistic ponents. From his stud Bhwick, Brooklyn, Frato talked to TheBody about patg durg a panmic, about jt how “gay” (or not) he wants his work to be, and his relatnship to an olr generatn of queer artists who ma work durg the AIDS epimic. "Courty of Sikkema Jenks & I was thkg about how a gay artist like, say, Mapplethorpe wanted to take the most betiful photographs of flowers, so he wouldn’t get pegged as “jt” a gay artist.
"Courty of Sikkema Jenks & So, I’m cur, how do you feel about a non–art expert like me lookg at your work and immediately thkg, “gay Pisso”? I had a teacher llege, Ken Tisa, who liv here New York, who was showg me artists who were makg work then, and I thought, “This is my direct history or leage as a gay pater.