Don’t try this at home… Model Clark photographed by Neil Bradley as part of a deviantART set.
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• The men with swords archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Secret Lives of the Samurai
Category: {gay}
Gay
The art of Paul Richmond
Forgive Me Father For I Know Not.
Paul Richmond explores the development of his sexuality in a fascinating series of paintings which adeptly blend figurative and abstract elements. Some of these resemble painted Photoshop collages which may well be how they started out. If so he’s one of the first painters I’ve come across who works this way.
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The art of Hideki Koh
Boys in kimonos and shirtless youth are Hideki Koh’s thing and you can see more of these at his site or at Mayumi International. As is all too common, most of the examples shown are painfully small although he has a page of wallpapers. A tip for artists everywhere: we don’t want to steal your work, we just want to see it properly.
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• The gay artists archive
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• Secret Lives of the Samurai
• The art of Sadao Hasegawa, 1945–1999
• The art of Takato Yamamoto
Three today
Three Spheres II (1946) by MC Escher.
Celebrating the third { feuilleton } anniversary and post number 1,438. It’s become customary now to list the most popular posts of the past year so here we go again:
• The Underwater Sculpture Gallery. This has been surprisingly popular for several months now, despite pictures of the artworks in question having been featured on very popular sites such as Boing Boing. Typing “underwater” into Google’s image search provides the answer, revealing that one of the pictures from the post is on the first results page.
• The gay artists archive. This section has also leapt in popularity after the page was linked recently on StumbleUpon. It’s not a definitive archive by any means, plenty of other sites are attempting that already. These archive pages are only a convenience so that people following some of the lengthier visual categories can see at a glance what else is there. At its best this section may introduce people to more recent work which the historical sites omit.
• Barney Bubbles: artist and designer. No surprise that this is still popular two years on.
• Bare blade. Part of the new semi-serious Men with swords obsession. I think people like this guy’s bum more than anything. Can you blame them?
• Two guys kissing. Yes, Googlers, when you search for “Two guys kissing” you get this wonderfully sexy photo by Jack Slomovits. He’s great, buy his book.
Thanks for reading!
John x
The art of Cody Furguson
The Artist’s Chair.
Cody Furguson’s work is a lot more painterly than that of many other gay artists and I like the way some of his recent pictures have backgrounds with a texture of flickering gold and abstract motifs reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. Makes me wonder why no one has tried updating the Klimt style, replacing those ubiquitous females with men. Furguson sells all his work and also accepts commissions at very reasonable rates.
Graffiti Wall Saint.
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• The gay artists archive