The Art of Zane Maxwell

The artist, Zane Maxwell draws gay erotic art paintings, sexy men and male nude in watercolors on the paper called Shikishi, Japanese card stocks designed for calligraphy and sumi ink paintings. The snow white and rough paper texture compliments his distinctive brush touch and artistic simplicity. His artwork is simple and yet provocative to stimulate wit and humor. Look for the evidence. He also writes contextual Japanese characters in his drawings. His extensive knowledge about those characters enhances his quality art. His blog for its respective illustration is intriguing to read as well. In these multiple respects, his art is unique to say the least. *The site contains gay sexually oriented artworks.

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Close the Door

Oh yeah, look at these two Akatsuki members getting their groove on! I love the way Deidara is bound to the bed, lol. Read more

Men and Beauty

Visual art comes in many forms, some in a mix of watercolors and other in techniques like corol drawing ecthed on blue paper. Some are photos of gorgeous men in black & white. Read more

The Secret Power of Images

Quello che è importante per me è l’effetto immediato che il realismo estremo delle mie foto eserciti su chi le guarda…or in English…What it is important for me is the immediate effect that the extreme realism of my photos exercises on who views them. Read more

Hold Me Tight!

Yeah man, just like that. You know how I like it. I just love the way you wrap your fingers around me and keep me warm, with your strong , rugged hands. Read more

Omoarte

A los 19 años se traslada desde Kaarina, su ciudad natal, a Helsinki para asistir a la escuela de arte. Allí comenzó a realizar sus primeros dibujos homoeróticos inspirados en los varoniles trabajadores finlandeses que desde niño le atraían.

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BAG: Barcelona Art Gay

BAG’09 [BarcelonaArtGay] is a cultural event of gay subject, created by Sergi Ortín, which is born this 2009 aiming for a maximum diffusion and its annual repetition. Everything turns about an art exhibition in the Espai Cultural Francolí, headquarters teresarius: promotors d’art (www.teresarius.com),
following its multidisciplinar character together with an offer following varied cultural exprint and upward, from the 7th to the 29th of May. It includes painting, photography, sculpture, comic and video-installation of well-known artists and new values, and is accompanied of interesting related parallel
activities during May.

Artists: Sergio Cattivelli, Roberto Delgado, Violeta Gomez, Antonio J., Invernot, Sebas Martín, David Mirás, Sandra Mondon, Elena Montull, Nazario, Ocaña, Olgaz, Daniel Torrent, Sandra Turnbull, y MR. WOOLMAN.

Private View: Thursday 7th of May from 7.30pm

We will count with artists, Dj Lapablo, performance and projection of Lechifla (designers of the image of BAG’09), service of catering by Ago Catering and wine by Vino Gay.

And the party continues from 11.30pm at Lotus Theater.

Parallel activities:
- ‘Kink: The freedom of the selfedition’. Conference by of PacoyManolo. Thursday 14th, 19h.
- ‘Remembering Robert Mapplethorpe’. Workshop of photography with model. Saturday 16th, 10-14h.
- ‘Mythology and Art: the secrets of Dionise’. Workshop of tasting of wines. Thursday 21, 19.30 h.
- ‘Gaycelona: from the persecution to the integration’. Route for the history and culture of the
Gay Barcelona. Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd of May to the 18h.
- Workshops Bondage in charge of Neo-Cortex BDSM.

Closure: Thursday 28th of May from 7.30pm. Wine by Louis de Vernier.

Performance by Thomas Reydellet and Presentation of collection of leather by ATELIERFER.
[Barcelona Art Gay]
Group Show of Gay Erotic Art
7th to 29th of May 2009
Opening: Thursday 7th of May from 7.30pm

BAG’09 sights to the contemporary art from the re-assertion of an identity LGTB (lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual). The elaboration of esthetic proposals that inquire in the universe that forms the plural and different identity built by this group to fight the discrimination, the prejudice and the
estigmatización accessing to their visibility with the intention of creating interesting subjects of analysis and debate in our society. The ‘Gay Art’ nowadays it is very much present in the international artistic panorama, it is already in magazines of trends, fashion and design, in the most in galleries of London, New York or Tokyo or in Art Fairs like Arco, Basel, Frieze or Miami.

Homoerotic art is usually the one created for and for the homosexual community. The subjects of this type of art go from the sensuality of the naked one up to the relationships psico-affective and erotic among people of the same sex. This demonstration is generally explicit, but not pornographic, although
it is difficult to draw an unmistakable border among erotism and pornography, since there will always be different interpretations and criteria; however when to talk of homoerotism we base in the emotional part associated with the erotism, which the sexual desire looks for waking up and at the same time
converts an explicit description in a little romantic, many times deepening more in the feelings than in the details specific to the act.

The homosexuality has been present in all the art history. This artistic gender has one of its bases in the ancestral cultures; these cultures dedicated part of their artistic expressions to the phallic cult, as developer of the fertility, but also as symbol of the virility and of the transmission of the force among
the warriors of a clan or tribe. It does not have to be forgotten that other cultures, besides the occidental one, also have clear examples of this subject, from the Indian to the Japanese.

The Greek art contains explicit references to this type of images with men, generally older, that they transmit its wisdom and its physical power to their students. In the Roman art the different representations of Zeus can stand out kidnapping and raping the beautiful Trojan prince Ganímides. In
the medieval period we have martyrs as San Sebastian, penetrated by arrows (phallic symbols) with expressions of pain and pleasure at the same time. In the Renaissance painters as Botticelli or Leonardo da Vinci and in the Baroque with Caravaggio usually present us secret codes in works of art that only
certain people understand.

Some artists of the 20th century and 21st to stand out for their contribution are Paul Cadmus, Gilbert & George, Tom of Finland, David Hockney, Will McBride, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Gilles. As example of feminine homoerotism we can quote Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt and Gustave Courbet.

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Sexy Gay Art

I am a gay artist living in the Northwest. I work primarily with sketches, watercolors, oils, and mixed media. I have created this site to promote my work and to offer it for sale. All works of art are originals and not prints unless otherwise stated. Prints of original works will be displayed on a separate page to avoid confusion. Potential clients can email me for arrangements to purchase items.

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Timothy’s Sketch Pad

With the increasingly combative and hateful tone in public discourse surrounding homosexuality I feel compelled to celebrate the joys of sexuality, my sexuality, more and more often. Heterosexual passions have long been represented in Western Art and there is also a rich, yet less visible, history of homosexual love and sexuality represented in art and I see no reason to shy away from expressions of human relationships that many would rather forget exist or actively work to suppress.

Meet David Vance

For more than 30 years David Vance has enjoyed a successful career photographing advertising and editorial assignments for Cosmopolitan. Read more

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